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    UPDATE ING141I MESSAGE TO INCLUDE DETAILS OF THE TEXT SENT

    When an alert is successfully set, you get an informational message in the NETLOG: ING141I SENDING OF ALERT 'SEVMINOR' FOR 'CNMPROC/APL/S104' WAS SUCCESSFUL It would be useful if the text sent in the alert could be included.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Provide sample members for user command exits to execute parallel to existing command exits.

    I have found during testing of command exits that offloading some of the work to a local autotask executing a local exec greatly improves customer/operator experience. To closely relate the IBM default exit with the local exec executing in paralle...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Recover autotask/operator assigned to a MTR resource

    SA MTRs that execute timed commands, once in execution or queued to an autotask, are never rescheduled if assigned AUTWRK is cancelled. A STOP+START of the affected MTRs is required to reschedule them. To solve this user can create an automatic RE...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    Prevent a task from coming up in another system until it is completely down in another system.

    This request is to prevent one of the applications that we are running from unecessary being flagged as broken by allowing SERIAL Move Mode specification in a SERVER group. SA automatically starts a member of a SERVER group in another system when ...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    Make it clear what resources are in-scope of a user issues a stop request name/SYG/name

    User inadvertently issued a stop against the system resource name/SYG/name APG. This obviously resulted in Automation shutting the system down, but this was not what the user intended!
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

    INGDYN CREATE option to force the usage of the latested templated

    We need an force option for the INGDYN CREATE function so that the latest template will be used to create the resource.
    about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Add Modified user & timestamp to ACF members

    It would be useful to have the modified details in the ACF members. We quite often scan the ACF members for details as it easier than using the PDB. Seeing the data the entry was modified can be useful for ruling out the member when we are investi...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Option to perform additional checks for affected resource before shutdown

    We need a option to perform additional checks for affected resource by shutdown
    over 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    PROCOPS - focal point functionality like in system automation

    Change PROCOPS in a way that the focal Point concept works like the System Automation focal point concept
    over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Move module INGTXFPG to SINGMOD2

    Hi SA development,Please move the new INGTXFPG module that comes in SA v3.4 to SINGMOD2 library as default.Since the SINGMOD2 library must be in the LINKLIST as documented in the SA manual.Including the new module INGTXFPG in the SINGMOD2 will ens...
    about 13 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 4 Future consideration

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