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Suspend file and Configuration refresh aborted

With SA 4.1 and the use of a suspend file, a configuration refresh may be aborted or rejected because errors related to the suspend file. The error messages may be issued in the syslog of a remote system and the issuer of the command is not inform...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enable JSON-Formatted Alert Delivery via INGIBRKR Using Customizable Templates

Currently, INGIBRKR (IBM NetView Integration Broker) supports forwarding alerts and events to external systems, but lacks native support for sending alerts in structured JSON format using customizable templates. This limits integration with REST-b...
5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, in the adminconsole, when viewing sessions for a group the sessions are not in alphabetic order.

In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, in the adminconsole, when viewing sessions for a group the sessions are not in alphabetic order. Need away to sort those sessions and/or filter them like you can in HOD. Unfortunately do to limitations in the pro...
6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 0 Planned for future release

In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, allow users to be able to detach from a list of his/her console/session definitions to create a seperate window. Instead of having to click on the session from the tabs on the left.

I want to be able to have more then one window open window at a time instead of having to click on the tabs. We have the ability to do it from the ADMIN Console but I think this ability should also be available for users. In our environment we wan...
6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Future consideration

In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, allow userids that have ADMIN authority be able to add that id to groups setup via the ADMIN console.

Currently, if I setup a group, being the an admin the product doesn't allow me to add my ID to that group. In smaller configurations this ability is needed.
6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0, allow ADMIN ids to be defined through the ADMIN Console instead of coding them in a config file.

Coding IDs in a config type file is outdated. We should be able to create new admin ID's using the ADMIN console of HACP EE.
6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Future consideration

In HACP/EE with imbedded HOD 15.0 I think use should be able to user keyboad map/functions whether your using Admin Console or Deployment wizard.

This allows us to eaily change a sessions Keyboard mapping or pfkey settings. Just to have it consistent across both products. HACP/HOD
6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 4 Planned for future release

LDAP authentication on HOD Licence Manager

Add the possibility to configure Host On Demand Licence Manager to use LDAP as authentication method. Adding options of Administrator and Monitor roles based on LDAP groups.
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

Add user types for SHUTDOWN commands, similar to user type for STARTUP

It is possible to alter/modify the start of an application by specifying a TYPE of STARTUP in the appropriate phase. An example of this using "WARM" as the type is shown in this KC figure: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWRCJ_4.1.0/c...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for Pre-defined JSON Input in INGIBRKR

Currently, INGIBRKR only accepts a list of strings to mitigate RCE risks. However, this restriction leads to improper handling of characters like double quotes ("), resulting in malformed Kafka messages and downstream processing issues. Enable the...
6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration