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    Ability to trigger a Situation by an event or message in realtime.

    We would like to monitor IMS messages in RealTime and have the ability to trigger a Situation. As Situations run in intervals, we must be very lucky to catch a message exactly when the Situation run. It is possible to setup MSGTRAP, but only to hi...
    8 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 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

    Support mixed case in field „Applparms“

    Today data entered in the field “Applparms” (INGREQ or INGSET) will be always translated to upper case. Allow to enter mixed case data in this field.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Provide Alert capability in Omegamon/IMS Classic for TPIPE QCT

    The current alert facility in Omegamon/IMS Classic does not have the capability to inform a user that a particular TPIPE has something queued in it. The QCT field in the /DIS TMEMBER TPIPE command is what we want to be trapped and reported on.
    over 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

    PDB Comparison

    Today there is no possibilty to compare the current PDB/SOCNTL against a new generated SONCTL to see the differences. With other words the automation adminstrator activates every change for a PDB / SOCNTL in blind flight without being able to chec...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    Add INGRUN to the SA API

    Due to a user case, it is important for us to have an option to control the RunModes (INGRUN) via the SA Operation API (endpoint). It is especially important to select a run mode, listing the possible RunModes is also useful.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    DYNAMIC Changes for a resource/application defined under RUNMODES

    it will help during any IPL/shutdown or DR Activities with dynamically changing resource/APPLICATION DEFINED under any RUNMODES to adjust as per need with actually going to update the policy or make a permanent change, this is like modifying start...
    10 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Make dynamic resource templates assignable to a system/sysplex so that templates are not shown on systems where we don't want them used

    Dynamic resource templates should have an option to only deploy them to a designated system/sysplex, currently all templates are deployed to all systems in the environment. Currently a user can create a resource that is not capable of running on t...
    10 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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