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IBM Z System Automation

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MTR command length needs to be increased

The current Activate , Deactivate & Monitor commands are limited to 159 characters. It would be nice if there was the ability to add additional linese
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

require system specific connections for Monitor or IPL Completion

The SA dialogues allow you to specify Monitor for IPL Complete. This is an all or nothing setting for wherever the resource is connected to. Looking for a mechanism to either specify which system this monitoring is for or an documented externalize...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

SQL Language Support for Internal RDS Tables

Enhance Systems Automation(SAzOS) to allow Sequential Query Language(SQL) against internal table data. Enabling the use of the powerful SQL language would provide at least these benefits:• A universally recognized language to access table data.• S...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Special Report Option for Overrides needed

Hello IBM,we need a additional Policy Database report, to find and identify our used AT OVERRIDES in the PolicyDB on a easy way. For migrations and optimization measures of our PolicyDB, we use currently the "Full Policy Database Report" to find a...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to define a start and stop priority of High, Med or Low for APLs linked to a Pacing Gate.

For example if we have 53 tasks, WASA01 – WASA15, WASB01 – WASB22 and WASC01 – WASC16 linked to system 9S04, we would like the ability to define a Pacing Gate, set the Start limit to 4, but also have the ability to assign a priority such as High, ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Add support for the usage of symbolic links for USS Path

I would like to have the ability to use symbolic links under USS Control > Process Command/Path in the System Automation Policy Database to remove the need for submitting a policy database build and configuration refresh if the path is changed.
9 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 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

Support mixed case in configuration field „Startup Parameters“

Today data entered in the field “Startup Parameters” will be always translated to upper case. Allow to enter mixed case data in this configuration field.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

INGALERT should default to use MVSESA if the jobname is not known to System Automation

If INGALERT code is called from the Message Automation Table, if not specified, the jobname is taken from the message's job name field. If the jobname is not known to System Automation, no alert is generated and the following message is issued: IN...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Enhance HASP050 Base error handling

Requesting enhancement to SA's base handling of the JES message HASP050 so as to accommodate resource types other than TGS. We want to make use of the SA facility to execute recovery commands when SPOOLSHORT conditions are encountered also for non...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration