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IBM Z System Automation

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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 ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

SMU - add RESET (Autodown) option in Rest API

We would like to have a RESET option in the SA Rest API, as is in SMU. This RESET then resets an application to the correct state, as you do in SA with AUTODOWN.For example, if an application is STOPPED and you want it to return to the correct state.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Filter options to work with the policy in SA z/OS

Given the fact that we have a lot entries in the policy (PDB), it would be very useful to have the option to set some filters. The usability of the product would be greatly improved if you can filter application, message-id's and groups (and so on)
about 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Possibility to automate ProcOps ISQ-messages in order to write it to the syslog - i.e. defined capacity changes

We want to automate ISQ-messages in order to write the into the syslog.Thats not completly possible, because they are written by PIPEs without an EXPOSE stage.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

APG desired availability NONE

We require a new Desired Available setting for APGs of 'NONE' - i.e. the group doesn't have a 'Desired Available' value and would use the 'worst' status of its members as its Compound and Observed status's. This would mean the group could be ACTIV...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 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, ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

New Parameter for INGAMS

INGCLEAN should be a new parameter of command INGAMS REFRESH
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Message when RUNMODE is reached.

I would find it pretty useful if SA would give out a message when a RUNMODE level is succesfully reached. Means, that if I change the current RUNMODE and all the affected applications are in the correspondent state, a success Message would be very...
over 2 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

reevalute system for APGs with "prepare move" and same preference values

Our company is using z System Automation to run the z environment.If you are using the availability feature "Prepare Move" and have same preference values defined you may consider application outages until the operator detects that situation and i...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

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