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IBM Z System Automation

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PROCOPS - store system IPL data in the product

FI-TS uses PROCOPS to manage z/OS- and zLinux-systems on system z as well as GDPS on some systems. To IPL the non-GDPS z/OS Systems FI-TS uses own files holding the relevant data. This is cumbersome as necessary changes have to be done outside the...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Make it clear what resources are in-scope of a user issues a stop request name/SYG/name

User inadvertently issued a stop against the system resource name/SYG/name APG. This obviously resulted in Automation shutting the system down, but this was not what the user intended!
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

PROCOPS - focal point functionality like in system automation

Change PROCOPS in a way that the focal Point concept works like the System Automation focal point concept
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

The limit of AUTH TOKEN (panel AOFGCPDO in SA Dialog) should be extended to 16 characters

We are implementing System Automation for z/OS under scope of GDPS/PPRC implementation project. In order to support BCPII we should to set AUTH TOKEN on panel AOFGCPDO in SA Customization Dialog. This field has 8 chars limit. This limitation is hy...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

REMOVE MAINTENANCE OF POLICY DATABASES AND BUILD,REFRESH PROCESS FOR ACF FILE

make all automation configuration dynamic with not maintaining policy databases/customization separately, instead customize, configure refresh directly from SA Netview agent panel. this would not only help maintaining policy database datasets but ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Dump analysis tool

With some of our most experienced dump readers either having retired already, or soon to retire. I was chatting to the boss about DWIZ since I'm always mentioning it when the team talks about dumps. He asked what it does, and when I told him, he a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration