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    System Shutdown Boost Enhancements

    When a system is being shutdown system automation checks if any recovery boosts are active.If any are active then the shutdown boost is not activated by system automation.This means that when you shutdown multiple systems one after the other in a ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 4 Not under consideration

    INGTIMER do not produce BNH549I as there is no parm to specify NOTIFY for CHRON timers

    System automation has the command INGTIMER which is used to manage timers connected to an application under it's control. The INGTIMER uses the NETVIEW CHRON under the covers. A normal Netivew timer when executing will produce a DSI208I when it is...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    Add a label at the beginning of each group in the generated AT

    It will be useful to add a lable at the beginning of each block in the automation tables generated by the build. For example, a label for the block for the message prefix DSN or DFS or DFH. The label could be equal to the message prefix as below; ...
    6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    New System Automation Policy Report for Runtokens

    System Automation had RUNTOKENS introduced with release 3.4. However, there is a need to visualize which RUNTOKENS exist for a system and which APL's have which RUNTOKENS currently assigned.This should be done as a Policy Database Report.This is t...
    almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    Set return codes for INGRCRDX when editing

    The ISPF EDIT service provides return codes which provide guidance as to whether a data was saved or not: Return codes 0 Normal completion; data was saved. 4 Normal completion; data was not saved for one of these reasons. • No data changes were ma...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Have INGAMS report on where the PAM previously resided on

    Currently when diagnosing automation manager issues there is no quick way to identify where the PAM previously resided on, and the timeframe on when it was selected, besides looking in the logs. Ideally the INGAMS panel should have a feature to di...
    7 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP command in the INGLIST panel at a group level

    To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP (INGREQ)command in the INGLIST panel at a group level as the SUSPEND ( INGSUSPD ) command does. It makes no sense to be able to see all the dependency tree for the SUSPEND comma...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

    The ASM shortage recovery must not depend on sysplex automation

    In certain cases, the sysplex automation is turned off when some systems in a physical sysplex (not only SAplex) can't answer to commands sent at the SA initialization. It is visible when the common global variable AOF.0ROUTEFAILED si set to 'Y'. ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    System Automation - Handling Long-Running Enqueues improvement

    As IBM recommended, the IBM System Automation's Handling Long-Running Enqueues (ENQs) function was enable in order to determnine a contention problem on RACF Databases getting a dump of the holder of the resource. The objective of the RFE 87447 is...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Allow CICS Explorer to test CTG gateway deamon against specific IP address

    Allow CICS Explorer test against the IP address configured in the CTG connection definition to be sure which CTG we connect to.When trying to test the CTG gateway connection or the CICS connection in the CICS Explorer CTG perspective, the IP addre...
    over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

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