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IBM Z System Automation

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support error message during startup

Keep Status Messages (Halted, Breaking, Broken, Abending, Abended) of resources over UP-Message(s). Allow threshold processing to issue commands for INFR, FREQ, CRIT during Startup-process Simular to MTR-resources allow to issue commands if Thresh...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Logrec / EREP recovery process needs to be reworked

System Automation provides a means to recover logrec via the following 4 message: IFB040I SYS1.LOGREC AREA IS FULL, hh.mm.ssIFB060E SYS1.LOGREC NEAR FULLIFB080E LOGREC DATA SET NEAR FULL, DSN=dsnameIFB081I LOGREC DATA SET IS FULL,hh.mm.ss, DSN=dsn...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 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

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT not smart enough

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT is checking INDOUBT Threads of DB2, but obviously the check are not going deep enough. We had an Indoubt Thread, which had already a status after an recover: ABORTED-H From Mainframe site there is nothing which can be done add...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Panel INGKYRQ3 does not show all attributes of the vote

When viewing the details of the Vote on panel INGKYRQ3 it does not show all the information provided by the requestor. Such as the a) Timeout overridesb) Precheck overridesc) Interrupt overrides These values are provide from panel INGKYRU2 from th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Alert on HALFDOWN

By default, System Automation creates an alert (INGALERT) if an application goes into BROKEN, ZOMBIE or STOPPED (OS_PROBLEM). HALFDOWN is a status as bad as the others and requires intervention (compound=problem), but SA doesn't react the same way...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Internally Indexed RDS Tables within SAzOS

The Systems Automation(SAzOS) tool would greatly benefit from being able to support Table data that is Internally Indexed. Currently the CREATE sub-function within INGRDS does not support creating tables that are internally indexed. There needs to...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 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

Allow to use RACF as keystore database for E2E Automation

The E2E Automation allows to have secured SSL-communication beetween the E2E-systems. Therefore you have to define some SSL-Keys. The configuration dialog within the feature allows to specify the name of the keystore inside the JAVA-Environment. T...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration