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IBM Z System Automation

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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

Provide simulator that shows what actions SA would perform during an shutdown and IPL

Provide simulator that shows what actions SA would perform during an IPL and shutdown, e.g. the sequence of the shutdown and start-up commands based on the defined relationships.
about 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

ProcOps: define more than one target hardware per z/OS system

Enhance ProcOps so that it can handle multiple definitions for z/OS Systems residing in differently named HW Slots on different CPUs.By now we have a homegrown application that is leveraging ProcOps functionality to deal with HW Automation. To be ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Enhance functionality for SA's E2E automation

Enhance functionality of SA's E2E Automation so that the E2E Manager knows about requests of a local Automation Manager and thus is enabled to show correct Status of a referenced resource.The REF-resource's Status on the E2E Manager System should ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

PDB Comparison

Today there is no possibilty to compare the current PDB/SOCNTL against a new generated SONCTL to see the differences. With other words the automation adminstrator activates every change for a PDB / SOCNTL in blind flight without being able to chec...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

System Shutdown Boost Enhancements

When a system is being shutdown system automation checks if any recovery boosts are active.If any are active then the shutdown boost is not activated by system automation.This means that when you shutdown multiple systems one after the other in a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 4 Not under consideration

Export and Import additional policies to/from File

TSA provides the function to export and import Policies to flat files, but are missing various types of policies.Customers need to be able to export and import additional policies, specifically for the following entries: 30 TMR- Timers, 08 SVP - S...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Integration z/OSMF – System Automation: Registered provisioned instances to System Automation

We are currently making the first steps in automating the provisioning of z/OS middleware such as Broker, MQ, CICS, DB2. As part of the provisioning we would like to be able to register provisioned middleware instances (started tasks, subsystems) ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Prevent Duplicate TIMER's

Currently if an Operator is modified in the Policy Database for a TIMER, and a new ACF is refreshed into SA it causes a duplication in TIMER's: one for the previously defined Operator and one for the newly defined Operator. Create SA functionality...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

JES2 shutdown updated to handle TCP/IP network servers

Currently, network servers are explicitly ignored during SA's JES2 shutdown and DRAINJES processing. This means customers have to code their own shutdown policy definitions. New entries should be made available for this in the Customization Dialog...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

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