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IBM Z System Automation

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    SYSTEM AUTOMATION TO BE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN PARENT TASKS THAT START A CHILD TASK WITH THE SAME NAME

    There are applications should as WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) and Control-O, where the applications starts multiple secondary tasks with the same name, but different step name. This makes is difficult for automation to monitor and manage. Automa...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 5 Future consideration

    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 ...
    about 3 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 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

    System Automation possibility to switch the gateway monitoring ON/OFF

    During the planned IPL of one of the Lpars in our enterprise (18 Lpars), the gateways to/from this Lpar to all the other Lpars are disconnected (of course). This results in a red message on the gateway panel on all the other lpars.Especially when ...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

    INGLKUP to expand EXLUDE functions to multiple fields not just jobname

    Currently INGLKUP uses UET INGLKUP EXCLUDE to compare against the D J,L command to see what jobs to exclude. Sometimes the standards are in the Step name or Procstep name and it would be nice if the exclude list was enhanced to allow the user to s...
    almost 10 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.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under 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 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

    Recover autotask/operator assigned to a MTR resource

    SA MTRs that execute timed commands, once in execution or queued to an autotask, are never rescheduled if assigned AUTWRK is cancelled. A STOP+START of the affected MTRs is required to reschedule them. To solve this user can create an automatic RE...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    Prevent a task from coming up in another system until it is completely down in another system.

    This request is to prevent one of the applications that we are running from unecessary being flagged as broken by allowing SERIAL Move Mode specification in a SERVER group. SA automatically starts a member of a SERVER group in another system when ...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

    Make it clear what resources are in-scope of a user issues a stop request name/SYG/name

    User inadvertently issued a stop against the system resource name/SYG/name APG. This obviously resulted in Automation shutting the system down, but this was not what the user intended!
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

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