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IBM Z System Automation

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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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

SA timers on Application

In the SA dialog timers for lpars are specified under "30 TMR Timers". We also specify a lot of timers on the application in the STARTUP phase under ANYSTART with the CHRON command to set timer and in the SHUTDOWN phase under INIT to purge the tim...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

ISSUEACT to support threshold name in the thres parm

Update ISSUEACT to support dynamic thresholds supplied by the user.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Event Management

SA should support specifying more attributes to feed Event management. Examples include policy to define a key for deduplication, recipient, category, severity, filtering criteria, time windows and more. Also SA should ship the "standard" events o...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Message automation should be multiuser capable and dynamically updateable

Multiple users should be able to define message automation. Activation and deactivation of message automation should be independent from the rest of the policy and also dynamically without the need to code NetView Automation Table statements.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Using INGVARS variables directly with commands

With INGVARS it is possible to set resource specific variables within a automation plex but it isn't possible to use this variables directly with an system command.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

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

Alert on HALFDOWN

By default, System Automation creates an alert (INGALERT) if an application goes into BROKEN, ZOMBIE or STOPPED (OS_PROBLEM). HALFDOWN is a status as bad as the others and requires intervention (compound=problem), but SA doesn't react the same way...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide capability to recover JES2 buffers other than TGS (SPOOL)

Provide flexible code to support monitoring and recovery of JES2 buffers similar to TGS (SPOOL).
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

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