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Created by Guest
Created on Dec 16, 2021

Add the monitoring screen for colored status in SMU

Our customer wants to the monitoring screen with SMU so that the status of the resource can be seen in color.
But there is no way to display all colored status.
Please add the function to identify as the colored fields or character for the all kinds of status for all system resource which are defined in SA Policy DB.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Wolfgang Schäberle
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    Apr 5, 2022

    In SMU 1.1.9 we have enhanced the SA Agent State visualization by using new icons to better visualize all possible SA Agent states. The SA Agent State can be included in existing views by enabling the corresponding column and the property can also be used in custom dashboards.

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Jan 4, 2022

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - Z Service Management Suite
    Component - Service Management Unite
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - Client

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - Z System Automation
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - Client