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Wrapper of RSEAPI REST API

Hi, A wrapper of RSEAPI REST API could be useful for the future of RSEAPI Java SDK, a behaviour similar to Zowe and rse-api-for-zowe-cli. We have the following scenario in our development : We need to upload several files of a folder using RSEPI J...
10 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Future consideration

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

Provide the ability to switch users from within a Remote Systems Explorer session

We currently have 2 levels of authorization for several of our software products...one for use on a day to day basis by users and another that is used for more critical/protected functionality like deployments and system configurations. To accompl...
11 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 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

ingrchck needs to be updated to work with AUTWRK assignments

INGRCHCK halts the current shutdown commands of the task it was invoked for. The issue we are encountering is that if the task it is waiting for is running on the same autwrk tasks then the second task might not be able to shutdown as the commands...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

System Shutdown Boost Enhancements

When a system is being shutdown system automation checks if any recovery boosts are active.If any are active then the shutdown boost is not activated by system automation.This means that when you shutdown multiple systems one after the other in a ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 4 Not under consideration

INGTIMER do not produce BNH549I as there is no parm to specify NOTIFY for CHRON timers

System automation has the command INGTIMER which is used to manage timers connected to an application under it's control. The INGTIMER uses the NETVIEW CHRON under the covers. A normal Netivew timer when executing will produce a DSI208I when it is...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

New System Automation Policy Report for Runtokens

System Automation had RUNTOKENS introduced with release 3.4. However, there is a need to visualize which RUNTOKENS exist for a system and which APL's have which RUNTOKENS currently assigned.This should be done as a Policy Database Report.This is t...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration