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IBM Z System Automation

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SA390 Dynamic Update of CMD processing using ACF REQ=REPL for same named commands.

Enhancement to current functionality of SA's 'ACF REQ=REPL' command.Currently, if multiple CMDs are defined, all with the same name, the ACF REQ=REPL will replace all existing CMDs with the one specified in the line command. Would like to have the...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 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...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

INGGROUP should have a parm to prevent entire group outages

The inggroup now accepts RECYCLE to perform a psuedo rolling recycle of the group. You can specify CHUNK to indicate how many members of that group should be processed in parallel. The one thing it does not do is ensure that the previous resource ...
over 1 year 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

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
over 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...
over 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...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow to assign one operator to an APL and/or MTR

Some resources are highly mission critical. Actions against those resource have been immediatly be processed.
over 5 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

SA generated MRT needs to be consistent with auto-generated trap behaviour

Under OTHERMSG SA should use the EXIT statement by default so trap behaviour is the same as a default UPON MSGID(...). Example of an UPON MSGID...UPON( MSGID = 'IEFC166D' ) REVISE('Y' AUTOMATE)When there is a hit on this message, there is no addit...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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