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IBM Z System Automation

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Improve how TSA sees attended autotasks in Netview

For the commands listed below, TSA should treat autotasks started with *MASTER* and *INTERN* the same way it does with the ones started with *ANY* (attended autotask) Meaning that the default value for the VERIFY parameter should be WTOR. INGMOVEI...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance INGMOVE to support SYSTEM MOVE groups

Enhance INGMOVE with an option to support SYSTEM move groups. The option may be LOCAL or SYSTEM vs. a default of SYSPLEX. Using this new option would produce an alternate move panel showing a list of resources in the group with options similar to ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 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 ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

SA ISPF Dialogue Build option to support directly duilding to GDG(+1)

Hi SA Dev, In the SA ISPF dialogue 2 BUILD OPTION in the ‘Output Data Set' field:please provide support to allow user to specify the DSN(+1) for an existing GDG when building to an ACF. Customers can allocate a new DSN(+1) to an existing GDG using...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

SA timers on Application

In the SA dialog timers for lpars are specified under "30 TMR Timers". We also specify a lot of timers on the application in the STARTUP phase under ANYSTART with the CHRON command to set timer and in the SHUTDOWN phase under INIT to purge the tim...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

ISSUEACT to support threshold name in the thres parm

Update ISSUEACT to support dynamic thresholds supplied by the user.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Event Management

SA should support specifying more attributes to feed Event management. Examples include policy to define a key for deduplication, recipient, category, severity, filtering criteria, time windows and more. Also SA should ship the "standard" events o...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Message automation should be multiuser capable and dynamically updateable

Multiple users should be able to define message automation. Activation and deactivation of message automation should be independent from the rest of the policy and also dynamically without the need to code NetView Automation Table statements.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Using INGVARS variables directly with commands

With INGVARS it is possible to set resource specific variables within a automation plex but it isn't possible to use this variables directly with an system command.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration