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IBM Z System Automation

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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...
12 months 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...
12 months 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

INGTIMER do not produce BNH549I as there is no parm to specify NOTIFY for CHRON timers

System automation has the command INGTIMER which is used to manage timers connected to an application under it's control. The INGTIMER uses the NETVIEW CHRON under the covers. A normal Netivew timer when executing will produce a DSI208I when it is...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Add user types for SHUTDOWN commands, similar to user type for STARTUP

It is possible to alter/modify the start of an application by specifying a TYPE of STARTUP in the appropriate phase. An example of this using "WARM" as the type is shown in this KC figure: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWRCJ_4.1.0/c...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future 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.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

System Automation - Handling Long-Running Enqueues improvement

As IBM recommended, the IBM System Automation's Handling Long-Running Enqueues (ENQs) function was enable in order to determnine a contention problem on RACF Databases getting a dump of the holder of the resource. The objective of the RFE 87447 is...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

New System Automation Policy Report for Runtokens

System Automation had RUNTOKENS introduced with release 3.4. However, there is a need to visualize which RUNTOKENS exist for a system and which APL's have which RUNTOKENS currently assigned.This should be done as a Policy Database Report.This is t...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Add CMT option in the SUSPEND file

Hi When a SUSPEND request is issued from the line command, it is possible to add a comment to the request. When a suspend request id done through a line in the suspend file, we can specify for the resource only the scope and the removal condition....
11 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

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