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IBM Z System Automation

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reevalute system for APGs with "prepare move" and same preference values

Our company is using z System Automation to run the z environment.If you are using the availability feature "Prepare Move" and have same preference values defined you may consider application outages until the operator detects that situation and i...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Logrec / EREP recovery process needs to be reworked

System Automation provides a means to recover logrec via the following 4 message: IFB040I SYS1.LOGREC AREA IS FULL, hh.mm.ssIFB060E SYS1.LOGREC NEAR FULLIFB080E LOGREC DATA SET NEAR FULL, DSN=dsnameIFB081I LOGREC DATA SET IS FULL,hh.mm.ss, DSN=dsn...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT not smart enough

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT is checking INDOUBT Threads of DB2, but obviously the check are not going deep enough. We had an Indoubt Thread, which had already a status after an recover: ABORTED-H From Mainframe site there is nothing which can be done add...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Object Type - CLASS in Monitor Resources panel

It would be very useful to have an option to define Object Type - CLASS and use it when creating identical/similar monitor resources as it is with applications. Could you please update the Monitor Resources panel to have an option to choose Object...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Do not invoke VPCEINIT during config refresh when no changes to UET have been done

Automatically skip the invocation of GDPS initialization exit VPCEINIT during an SA config refresh when no changes to UETs have been done.
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under 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 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Consistent and product provided (dialog) functionality to handle PDB and SOCNTL via GDG

Currently there is no product provided solution to have a time consistent backup from PDB and SOCNTL. To have a GDG support for the SOCNTL the manual descibes a way to build and copy only the SOCNTL manualy. From our perspective this isn't a way t...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Command execution available in IMS ABCODETRAN and ABCODEPROG minor resources

If a transaction (or program) fails there is no way to trigger a command as an answer to the ABEND CODE minor resource fitering. So far only recovery INCLUDE or EXCLUDE as "Code" are allowed options to react. There should be also an option to exec...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Possibility to have multiple WLM resource names in the application info panel

The number of wlm resource names in the PDB's application info panel shouldn't be limited to only 3 names per Application. Users should be able to add as many wlm_resources as they might need.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance INGEXEC to allow local substitution of System Variables

Ingexec will allow you route commands to another system and will allow the customer to specify # for the AOCQRY variables that should be substituted on the system of execution and for the resource in which the ingexec is using. Currently I specify...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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