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IBM Z System Automation

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LONG RUNNING ENQUEUE AUTOMATION

When long running enqueue automation is enable an optional alert can be specified should an enqueue be detected. AOF950I JOB jobname ON sysname HOLDS AN ENQ FOR nnn SECONDS ON RESOURCE source There is no clearing alert being issued when the enqueu...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future 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

Internally Indexed RDS Tables within SAzOS

The Systems Automation(SAzOS) tool would greatly benefit from being able to support Table data that is Internally Indexed. Currently the CREATE sub-function within INGRDS does not support creating tables that are internally indexed. There needs to...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Enhance DSNJ110E automation

IBM supplies special hard-coded processing for DB2 message DSNJ110E in ISSUEACT(AOFRSGCR), but it is limited to checking for a single threshold in DB2 CTL policy. My solution:Remove special DSNJ110E processing from AOFRSGCR.Add pre-defined DSNJ110...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Change externally stopped/started APL status to STUCK/STARTED2 if APL do not STOP/START within expected threshold

Improve IBM SA for z/OS to mark Externally stopped/started resource to PROBLEM status if resource is taking too long to STOP or START. The SR (74898,001,866) was raised to resolve the issue when applications that have EXTERNAL STOP FINAL were left...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Automatic Start of PrcoOps SECLOG

The SECLOG of ProOps should be automatically activated by option.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Increase REGION parameter for build job

In the REXX code SINGIREX(AOFFCOPT) that generates the batch JCL and in the supplied sample SINGSAMP(INGEBBLD) increase the REGION=6M to something larger, such as REGION=0M.Alternatively, because some customers may have REGION limits that must be ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Make SA messages or at least message help, more operator friendly. In this case I refer specifically to threshold messages.

Some SA messages tend to be cryptic for the operator. One of two things occur when the message and/or online help is not detailed enough.1. Emails are sent to the operators to update their documentation to explain what to do, which is redundant wi...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

INGINFO Number of history lines ?/SYS/? resources should be customizable

We start to use ihe INGSTX command to update user-defined status items. These updates generates lot of HSAL6181I messages to been seen in INGINFO Resource => MVSJ/SYS/MVSJ History : 2014-10-13 11:10:38 Status Item Update HSAL6181I Variable attr...
about 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

Add functionality to ISQCCMD

Please add the LOAD and SYSRESET common command functionality to the ISQCCMD when running in LPAR Management mode using the BCPii interface.
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration