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Status Not under consideration
Categories Other
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 2, 2013

TXSeries administration console enhancement requests

Bunch of the following requirements were received during the BoC customer visit and the TXSeries v8.1 open beta workshop in China during 3Q, 2013. Following are the enhancement requests.

- Facility to capture the actions from admin console and replay later
- Facility to backup region and other server data from admin console
- Provide search function for all logs in admin console
- Facility to invoke a admin command script from admin console
- Provide tips on whether a cold start is required after making a change through admin console
- Provide facility to backup stanzas while making changes through admin console
- Possibly provide versioning of such backed up files. Configuration Management
- Provide CEMT view in admin console
- Region migration (v to v) support through web admin console
- Provide support to record all operations done from admin console.
- Provide an Undo option for configuration
- Provide a facility to source control configuration from admin console

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    Jul 28, 2016

    This is not something we plan to address.

  • Guest
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    Oct 5, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - TXSeries

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - TXSeries