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IBM Z System Automation

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Policy build report improvements.

We have a single policy database that contains Sandpit systems. We would like to perform a full build of the policy database, but to have the flexibility to exclude test systems as we're not interested in these. This would significantly improve ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

INGOMX SOAP fault response

Normally, when a SOAP request is sent successfully to the SOAP server, the server responds with HTTP 200, and INGOMX writes the SOAP response to console. But in case of an error, especially HTTP 500 - Internal Error, INGOMX writes only the HTTP re...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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 ...
almost 8 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...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

UPDATE ING141I MESSAGE TO INCLUDE DETAILS OF THE TEXT SENT

When an alert is successfully set, you get an informational message in the NETLOG: ING141I SENDING OF ALERT 'SEVMINOR' FOR 'CNMPROC/APL/S104' WAS SUCCESSFUL It would be useful if the text sent in the alert could be included.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under 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 ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

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 ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide sample members for user command exits to execute parallel to existing command exits.

I have found during testing of command exits that offloading some of the work to a local autotask executing a local exec greatly improves customer/operator experience. To closely relate the IBM default exit with the local exec executing in paralle...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

support error message during startup

Keep Status Messages (Halted, Breaking, Broken, Abending, Abended) of resources over UP-Message(s). Allow threshold processing to issue commands for INFR, FREQ, CRIT during Startup-process Simular to MTR-resources allow to issue commands if Thresh...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

SA ISPF Dialogue Build option to support directly duilding to GDG(+1)

Hi SA Dev, In the SA ISPF dialogue 2 BUILD OPTION in the ‘Output Data Set' field:please provide support to allow user to specify the DSN(+1) for an existing GDG when building to an ACF. Customers can allocate a new DSN(+1) to an existing GDG using...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration