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    Add the support for DBCS on SMU

    Our customer is using System Automation SDF(NetView NCCF) to display the important message which includes DBCS characters.Messages in DBCS are required to display on SMU monitoring panel after migrating SDF to Service Management Unite.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    Ability to Suspend a Timer Across IPLs

    It would be appreciated if we can have ability to suspend a timer and keep that timer suspended across IPLs.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Enable Class Inheritance for the DB2 CONTROL Parm Values

    Please enable Class Inheritance for the DB2 Control Parm values. Presently the Class Inheritance for the defined DB2 Control parms are not working as documented. Please refer to IBM's Defining Automation Policy manual starting on page 12 under the...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    INGALERT should default to use MVSESA if the jobname is not known to System Automation

    If INGALERT code is called from the Message Automation Table, if not specified, the jobname is taken from the message's job name field. If the jobname is not known to System Automation, no alert is generated and the following message is issued: IN...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    Transaction Userid should be used for the authorization of Commands submitted by MPP Pgm through CSLOMCMD or REXX SPOC API

    Currently the Userid used to submit a Command through CSLOMCMD Macro used by a AOP Program that runs in a MPP within the processing of a Transaction is the MPP Region Userid and not the Userid of the User that submitted the Transaction.IMS should ...
    over 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

    DB Quiesce without RM in IMSPLEX

    We have an application which has 20 single IMS production systems on 10 LPARS (2 IMS each) in one IMSPLEX . Every day at 00:00 AM we have to “DBR” all databases for a consistency point for the application. The procedure of stopping the application...
    over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

    Prevent Duplicate TIMER's

    Currently if an Operator is modified in the Policy Database for a TIMER, and a new ACF is refreshed into SA it causes a duplication in TIMER's: one for the previously defined Operator and one for the newly defined Operator. Create SA functionality...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Change value for Pacing gate dynamically

    Hello, we would like to have the opportunity to dynamically change values for our Pacing gate we have defined for our Liberty servers since we have started to use System Recovery boost when we ipl our systems. I want to increase the value during i...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    SA390 Dynamic Update of CMD processing using ACF REQ=REPL for same named commands.

    Enhancement to current functionality of SA's 'ACF REQ=REPL' command.Currently, if multiple CMDs are defined, all with the same name, the ACF REQ=REPL will replace all existing CMDs with the one specified in the line command. Would like to have the...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    Update EVJ120I message to include OPTEXT data.

    We have automation code that uses INGTWS/INGOPC command to obtain OPTEXT data for a failing batch job. It would simplify this process if the OPTEXT data was made available on the EVJ120I error message (at the end).
    about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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