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IBM Z System Automation

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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!
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

INGDYN CREATE option to force the usage of the latested templated

We need an force option for the INGDYN CREATE function so that the latest template will be used to create the resource.
over 2 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

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

Show list of changed resources before INGAMS REFRESH

When a new ACF is loaded it is not visible which changes will be activated when this ACF is refreshed. Especially on a production system this is an unwanted situation.Therefor we've made our own rexx. This rexx will check the timestamp in the new ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

SA PROCOPS ICNTL command can be imporved update multiple variables in one command

Hello, We were trying to use SA to automate ooCoD(resillience offering) requested by bank customer, they need to update lpars' weights values, but found if we use SA,we need to issue 21 commands which cost 15 minutes to update the weights. My BCPi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Add INGRUN to the SA API

Due to a user case, it is important for us to have an option to control the RunModes (INGRUN) via the SA Operation API (endpoint). It is especially important to select a run mode, listing the possible RunModes is also useful.
about 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Supporting Larger Screen Sizes / Logmodes for NetView / System Automation Panels e.g. INGLIST

Hello NetView / SA Team, currently we are migrating from IBM AF/Operator to NetView SA at our side. And during this migration more and more inquiries are arriving that NetView only displays 62 rows at the most panels (e. g. INGLIST, DISPINFO, and ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Change value for Pacing gate dynamically

Hello, we would like to have the opportunity to dynamically change values for our Pacing gate we have defined for our Liberty servers since we have started to use System Recovery boost when we ipl our systems. I want to increase the value during i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Generated MRT is unexpectedly modified when making an update via AO.

When there is a Generated MRT and AT, if later, a change is made to the AT via AO (AT override) the MRT unexpectedly changes preventing the message deom being trapped on in the MRT. Similar changes when managing the MRT/AT will notify the user tha...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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