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    AAO _WAIT required for AOCQRES and INGDATA commands

    Currently the customer has to specify a WAIT=xxx for every occurrence of INGDATA and AOCQRES that they invoke. Other commands like INGEVENT and INGLIST have an AAO called INGLIST_WAIT and INGEVENT_WAIT to set a default value.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    The capability to user defined information to INGALERT when called from SA Policy

    I need to add user defined information to the INGALERT when it is called from the defined CDE MATCH in SA POLICY definition under MVC - INGALERT.ExampleIf a DB2 abend I need to add the group Id for the group that are responsible for that DB2.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Flexible USS FILTER

    The current Application USS FILTER field is limited as the filter is basically the command string which can be truncated from the right. The filter should be enhanced to allow;1) full unix grepEg in filter define: grep [options] PATTERN2) standard...
    about 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Unnecessary ARM Check

    No checking of ARM environment if ARM is not enbled
    over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Support for more command thru COMMAND file for Remote Debugging

    For remote debugging using IDz, we can use a COMMAND file, but the commands that can be executed before the program stop in debugger are limited. One of the reason we use the command file is to conditionally stop the program in the debugger based ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Not under consideration

    Support source return for code coverage data

    Support the return of program source in code coverage data. Currently the returned program has all it's copybooks expanded. This make impossible for adding the code coverage metrics to the corresponding SonarQube dashboard as the sources are unmat...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 2 Not under consideration

    LONG RUNNING ENQUEUE AUTOMATION

    When long running enqueue automation is enable an optional alert can be specified should an enqueue be detected. AOF950I JOB jobname ON sysname HOLDS AN ENQ FOR nnn SECONDS ON RESOURCE source There is no clearing alert being issued when the enqueu...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    The limit of AUTH TOKEN (panel AOFGCPDO in SA Dialog) should be extended to 16 characters

    We are implementing System Automation for z/OS under scope of GDPS/PPRC implementation project. In order to support BCPII we should to set AUTH TOKEN on panel AOFGCPDO in SA Customization Dialog. This field has 8 chars limit. This limitation is hy...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

    Internally Indexed RDS Tables within SAzOS

    The Systems Automation(SAzOS) tool would greatly benefit from being able to support Table data that is Internally Indexed. Currently the CREATE sub-function within INGRDS does not support creating tables that are internally indexed. There needs to...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    Enhance DSNJ110E automation

    IBM supplies special hard-coded processing for DB2 message DSNJ110E in ISSUEACT(AOFRSGCR), but it is limited to checking for a single threshold in DB2 CTL policy. My solution:Remove special DSNJ110E processing from AOFRSGCR.Add pre-defined DSNJ110...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

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