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IBM Z System Automation

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Gateways (DISPGW) to show correct status when inbound sessions are not connected

We recently created a new LPAR. We defined a gateway definition to the LPAR hosting the TWS controller, but missed defining a gateway definition the other way. DISPGW on the new LPAR showed the status of the gateway to the TWS system as active. Th...
6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

INGLIST COMMAND PROVIDE THE ABILITY TO FILTER ON SUSPENDED RESOURCES

You cannot use INGLIST command to filter on suspended resources. You have to use INGVOTE REQ=SUSPEND.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Group Actions in SA Rest API Server

While most basic functions are available in the SA Rest Operations Server were definitely missing some important ones such as GROUP actions. INGMOVE is a common use within our company for high availability purposes during maintenance. We would lik...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Authentication based on a Client Certificate (SA Operation Rest Server)

The preference of using a certificate to authenticate instead of Basic Authentication like a username and password. For automating purposes you would prefer not to use Basic Authentication and instead use something like a Client Certificate, espec...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

provide IBM Z automation capability to interface with IBM RMF tool especially MONITOR III

it would be great to have an interface through IBM z system automation to RMF tool especially monitor III for the live analysis/custom alert mechanism for z performance especially resources,jobs, enques, transactions,..etc.,
6 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request for SETTIMER Command

Actor: Systems Programmer Our team uses System Automation for z/OS for various things. One of which is utilizing Policy timers to perform some unit of work at a time-based interval. Currently operating in Netview to interact with policy timers (no...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Update EVJ120I message to include OPTEXT data.

We have automation code that uses INGTWS/INGOPC command to obtain OPTEXT data for a failing batch job. It would simplify this process if the OPTEXT data was made available on the EVJ120I error message (at the end).
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

JOB LOG MONITORING SUPPORT FOR USING WILCARD (*) IN ANY MESSAGE STRING

Job log monitoring code supports the use of a wildcard (*) as part of the filter criteria. Job log monitoring however only allows this to be used as the beginning of a search string. Example of supported definition: DUMMY :JLM_OFFSET=0JLM_DDNAME=S...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Customer is issuing INGIMS with a transaction as the command and getting DFS165 hh:mm:ss COMMAND VERB IS INVALID

INGIMS apparently passes IMS commands using this Multiple Console Support (MCS) which we had enabled by defining the IMS parameter CMDMCS=Y (the default was N). Basically INGIMS will simply prefix whatever has been specified with the IMSsubid and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Update PIPE in ACFREP (aka AOFRSRPY) to expose messages IEE600I in order to allow further AT processes to trap IEE600I

We would like to suggest an enhancement for the way ACFREP (AOFRSRPY) replies to WTORs. Currently, the PIPE named ISSUECMD executes the reply command via CORRCMD and then locates the message IEE600I and save to a stem named resp. This works gracef...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration