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Message when RUNMODE is reached.

I would find it pretty useful if SA would give out a message when a RUNMODE level is succesfully reached. Means, that if I change the current RUNMODE and all the affected applications are in the correspondent state, a success Message would be very...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Let server group shutdown during sysplex shutdown

During sysplex shutdown, automation server groups are not able to properly shutdown due to backup systems being unavailable. Server group desires backup system to be available in order to move last APL, however other systems are shutdown. System a...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Domain Assignment for NetView Workstations

Objective: Enable the capability to dynamically update the domain assignment of a NetView workstation. This functionality should override the existing assignment set via the System Automation (SA) policy, allowing for temporary workload redistribu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Panel INGKYRQ3 does not show all attributes of the vote

When viewing the details of the Vote on panel INGKYRQ3 it does not show all the information provided by the requestor. Such as the a) Timeout overridesb) Precheck overridesc) Interrupt overrides These values are provide from panel INGKYRU2 from th...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Filter options to work with the policy in SA z/OS

Given the fact that we have a lot entries in the policy (PDB), it would be very useful to have the option to set some filters. The usability of the product would be greatly improved if you can filter application, message-id's and groups (and so on)
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow IEASYMxx member to read system variable context from IPLPARM member or SYS1.dataset file.

Allow IEASYMxx to ready system variable from file, or IPLPARM member
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Generated MRT is unexpectedly modified when making an update via AO.

When there is a Generated MRT and AT, if later, a change is made to the AT via AO (AT override) the MRT unexpectedly changes preventing the message deom being trapped on in the MRT. Similar changes when managing the MRT/AT will notify the user tha...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

APG desired availability NONE

We require a new Desired Available setting for APGs of 'NONE' - i.e. the group doesn't have a 'Desired Available' value and would use the 'worst' status of its members as its Compound and Observed status's. This would mean the group could be ACTIV...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Automation Status file cleaning tool

The ASF file is used to store events reported as errors. They are used to set the threshold values for various automation processes. Thresholds are specified as number of occurences in time windows and the largest is 24 hours. So events older than...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Possibility to automate ProcOps ISQ-messages in order to write it to the syslog - i.e. defined capacity changes

We want to automate ISQ-messages in order to write the into the syslog.Thats not completly possible, because they are written by PIPEs without an EXPOSE stage.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration