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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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Let server group shutdown during sysplex shutdown

During sysplex shutdown, automation server groups are not able to properly shutdown due to backup systems being unavailable. Server group desires backup system to be available in order to move last APL, however other systems are shutdown. System a...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 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
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

System Automation, add "members=yes" option to INGDATA

In System Automation for z/OS, add the "MEMBERS=YES" option to the INGDATA interface. This would behave the same as for the INGLIST command: expanding a passed APG name into its component members.
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 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

Prevent Duplicate TIMER's

Currently if an Operator is modified in the Policy Database for a TIMER, and a new ACF is refreshed into SA it causes a duplication in TIMER's: one for the previously defined Operator and one for the newly defined Operator. Create SA functionality...
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

INGTWS : Logging and use of Exit AOFEXC21 for Displays needed

We use INGTWS to do requests against our IWS-Controller in production environments. In normal cases the interface works fine, but we are unable to analyse failure situations which occured with REQUEST=DISPLAY in the follow up. With REQUEST=MODIFY ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

PDB Comparison

Today there is no possibilty to compare the current PDB/SOCNTL against a new generated SONCTL to see the differences. With other words the automation adminstrator activates every change for a PDB / SOCNTL in blind flight without being able to chec...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

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