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    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

    UKO: /ukebase/server.xml improvments

    It would be easier to have the same timestamp in each log (joblog, syslog, messages.log, trace.log). Currently our zOS logs are in local time and the GUI logs are in UTC. Please add a variable to server.xml in /ukobase to set a timezone Another go...
    over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

    Dual Control for key management actions (n/Auth)

    A method for dual control is needed in EKMF Web, such that any action (request), for which dual control is required, requires two (or more) users to confirm the request before EKMF Web performs the action. These actions can be (but not limited to)...
    almost 3 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

    Key lifecycle management for old key versions

    This idea is related to EKM-I-70 After a key is rotated, there should be options to manage the lifecycle of the old keys. One option could be to set the old version of the key to inactive, so it can not be used for new encryption anymore
    12 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    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

    GUI usability improvements for UKO

    We need to provide the UKO authorisation roles to a group of users with little knowledge of key management. They need a tool that is easy and intuitive to use. So the GUI needs to be clearer. I think it would be very useful if users of the UKO GUI...
    over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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