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IBM Z System Automation

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Suspend file and Configuration refresh aborted

With SA 4.1 and the use of a suspend file, a configuration refresh may be aborted or rejected because errors related to the suspend file. The error messages may be issued in the syslog of a remote system and the issuer of the command is not inform...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 4 Not under consideration

Gateways (DISPGW) to show correct status when inbound sessions are not connected

We recently created a new LPAR. We defined a gateway definition to the LPAR hosting the TWS controller, but missed defining a gateway definition the other way. DISPGW on the new LPAR showed the status of the gateway to the TWS system as active. Th...
5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Provide code to allow customers to send events to applications via REST API

This would provide a fully supported way for customers using IBM Z System Automation to interface with applications running on z/OS, or other platforms using REST. This would avoid the need for customers to create their own bespoke scripts. It sho...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 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...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

provide IBM Z automation capability to interface with IBM RMF tool especially MONITOR III

it would be great to have an interface through IBM z system automation to RMF tool especially monitor III for the live analysis/custom alert mechanism for z performance especially resources,jobs, enques, transactions,..etc.,
5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under 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...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 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

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...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration