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    controlling IPLcomplete-check after setting new Runmode

    In case of maintenance we are using runmodes with reduced number of resources which are needed to maintain the systems.In this phase IPL will not complete, cause all our online-systems are down, which are defined for IPL-complete checking.Not all ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Improve how TSA sees attended autotasks in Netview

    For the commands listed below, TSA should treat autotasks started with *MASTER* and *INTERN* the same way it does with the ones started with *ANY* (attended autotask) Meaning that the default value for the VERIFY parameter should be WTOR. INGMOVEI...
    over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    Enhance INGMOVE to support SYSTEM MOVE groups

    Enhance INGMOVE with an option to support SYSTEM move groups. The option may be LOCAL or SYSTEM vs. a default of SYSPLEX. Using this new option would produce an alternate move panel showing a list of resources in the group with options similar to ...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    Showing originating user for request from SMU in the netlog

    We are in the middle of implementing SMU for our colleagues . To see if anyone is using SMU and if so, who is using it, I noticed that the netlog does not show the actual user for a request. For example I performed a move for a movegroup, using SM...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

    INGTWS : Logging and use of Exit AOFEXC21 for Displays needed

    We use INGTWS to do requests against our IWS-Controller in production environments. In normal cases the interface works fine, but we are unable to analyse failure situations which occured with REQUEST=DISPLAY in the follow up. With REQUEST=MODIFY ...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    SA timers on Application

    In the SA dialog timers for lpars are specified under "30 TMR Timers". We also specify a lot of timers on the application in the STARTUP phase under ANYSTART with the CHRON command to set timer and in the SHUTDOWN phase under INIT to purge the tim...
    almost 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    ISSUEACT to support threshold name in the thres parm

    Update ISSUEACT to support dynamic thresholds supplied by the user.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    It would be helpful to set an automation symbol instead of a "=" or the system name in the Supporting Resource of the APLs in the policy

    We have an APL (IE01FD1) that has a Supporting Resource (IE01CTL). Since the Supporting Resource runs on different systems (X21, Y21 and Z21), we must define the APL three times (IE01FD1_PLEXX, IE01FD1_PLEXY and IE01FD1_PLEXZ) and in it the Resour...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Event Management

    SA should support specifying more attributes to feed Event management. Examples include policy to define a key for deduplication, recipient, category, severity, filtering criteria, time windows and more. Also SA should ship the "standard" events o...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    Message automation should be multiuser capable and dynamically updateable

    Multiple users should be able to define message automation. Activation and deactivation of message automation should be independent from the rest of the policy and also dynamically without the need to code NetView Automation Table statements.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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