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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Z System Automation
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 26, 2026

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Graphical Interface for SA PDB management

Currently SA PDB has to be managed via char menus, which is ancient and not "user friendly" at all. Having a graphical interface, that connect to Z/OS and provide an easy to use interface, will allow Automation teams to be more productive.

Also, this would allow future enhancements, like integration with Watsonx Code Assistant. Or even integration with Watsonx to analyze SA police to seek for issues, problems and/or recommendations.

And finally, and the end, have some sort of agent, that could read system log, process it and suggest automations that are NOT inside SA and that customer can take advantage of having it.

This all could be features inside Watson Orchestrator, as "add ons".

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Bernd Jostmeyer
    Mar 4, 2026

    Hello,

    thanks for the idea. Currently the customization of SA is mainly done with the "SA Policy Customization Dialog". Which is in fact a 3270 ISPF panel dialog + ISPF tables to store the data.
    This solution is existing since many years now and always has been enhanced to provide management of policy entries for an Enterprise wide policy. Things like "Classes", "Templates", "Sample Policies" and "System Symbol Support" has been added - all in the effort to handle a big number of alike resources with similar messages on dozens if not more systems of multiple sysplexes. With minimal change effort.

    We are working on modernization. Just in recent releases we started developing
    a) a new component named "SA Policy Service Provider", creating Policy Reports as JSON document - that can be used eg by VSCode at least for browsing
    b) enhanced this component to take over the still required "Policy Build" task and make this faster
    c) added an "SA Customization REST API" as new and additional API next to the "SA Operations REST API". In a first step this API can be used to work with TMR resources but needs and will be enhanced in future.

    For what you plan to do with AI capabilities - it is indeed interesting and we see it - but this is a "far end requirement". First we need to lay the foundation that AI can talk with SA
    for "operations use cases --> SA Operations API" and for "customization use cases --> SA Customization API". As you see above we are working on it.

    For the ISPF based customization dialog - we cannot just replace the UI editing the policy. We also need to find a good replacement solution for the persistency of data - which is currently ISPF tables, too. As additional requirement - we want not loose the many existing skills at customer side using the ISPF customization editor and the enormous amount of existing policies saved in ISPF tables. In other words - we need to ensure backward compatibility...

    We will accept this idea - and we are working on it - however it is a stepwise approach.



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