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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

INGLKUP and DISPTREE to work through HasMember APGs

Please update the DISPTREE and INGLKUP REQ=ANALYSE to work through APG HasMember relationships. Neither indicate relationships that are via HasMember groups.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

Have INGREQ CANCEL complete when Resource returns to SATISFACTORY state

Currently if an APG has the status AVAILABLE SOFTDOWN where all of its APLs within it are SOFTDOWN and then a STOP vote is put on the APG. When there is an INGREQ CANCEL to the APG Stop Vote, this will give a bad return code, even though the APG i...
8 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request for SETTIMER Command

Actor: Systems Programmer Our team uses System Automation for z/OS for various things. One of which is utilizing Policy timers to perform some unit of work at a time-based interval. Currently operating in Netview to interact with policy timers (no...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

INGLIST COMMAND PROVIDE THE ABILITY TO FILTER ON SUSPENDED RESOURCES

You cannot use INGLIST command to filter on suspended resources. You have to use INGVOTE REQ=SUSPEND.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Update PIPE in ACFREP (aka AOFRSRPY) to expose messages IEE600I in order to allow further AT processes to trap IEE600I

We would like to suggest an enhancement for the way ACFREP (AOFRSRPY) replies to WTORs. Currently, the PIPE named ISSUECMD executes the reply command via CORRCMD and then locates the message IEE600I and save to a stem named resp. This works gracef...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

System Automation, add "members=yes" option to INGDATA

In System Automation for z/OS, add the "MEMBERS=YES" option to the INGDATA interface. This would behave the same as for the INGLIST command: expanding a passed APG name into its component members.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

ProcOps: define more than one target hardware per z/OS system

Enhance ProcOps so that it can handle multiple definitions for z/OS Systems residing in differently named HW Slots on different CPUs.By now we have a homegrown application that is leveraging ProcOps functionality to deal with HW Automation. To be ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Enhance functionality for SA's E2E automation

Enhance functionality of SA's E2E Automation so that the E2E Manager knows about requests of a local Automation Manager and thus is enabled to show correct Status of a referenced resource.The REF-resource's Status on the E2E Manager System should ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration