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    Store Up/Down Message in ASF and show in DISPINFO

    The message(s) that triggered ACTIVMSG, resp. TERMMSG, should be stored in the Automation Status File (ASF) along with the already available timestamp.This information should then also be shown by DISPINFO. This requirement has been discussed at E...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Supporting Larger Screen Sizes / Logmodes for NetView / System Automation Panels e.g. INGLIST

    Hello NetView / SA Team, currently we are migrating from IBM AF/Operator to NetView SA at our side. And during this migration more and more inquiries are arriving that NetView only displays 62 rows at the most panels (e. g. INGLIST, DISPINFO, and ...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    Need SA to re-establish hardware connections without recycles

    There are numerous occurrences where the BCPII and Hardware connections to the Z environment have failed, either due to an operator not suspending the connection or due to a Hardware failure. When this occurs there is no current ability to redrive...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

    Threshold changes should be possible to dynamically revert back

    Our team uses SA 4.1 and NetView 6.2.1 for mange applications. Panel AOFKAASR allows to dynamically add, change threshold but it doesn't allow to revert changes back to previous state. This function should be added to avoid recycle NetView, ACF CO...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

    Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

    If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

    Show when INGVARS are deleted from resources

    When you add a new INGVAR to a resource, it will display inside the History section of the resource exactly what you have set and what that INGVAR has been set to. For example; History : 2020-01-21 09:31:05 Variable attribute/user/TESTVAR manipula...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    Tertiary SDF Focal Point option

    Addition of Tertiary SDF focal point option under customization dialog NTW > SDF FOCAL POINT as well as under run time environment with new cglobal for example AOFTFP, as well as update of all impacted rexxes to support 3rd focal point, with or...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

    Feature to compare updated that will be refreshed

    Hello Team, During a recent review conducted by the Automation Support team, an unintended action occurred while accessing the Automation Policy Database. The technician mistakenly used the EDIT mode instead of BROWSE, which led to the inadvertent...
    4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    SA Datastore connectivity alerts when variables for dynamic resources are deployed but no connection to the datastore exists

    Currently if there is no connection to the ING384I Persistent data store is not available will be displayed in the INGDYN panel, however you can have resources that were defined and your connection to the datastore has been lost and unless you go ...
    8 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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