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Provide Detailed Instructions on Cloning an SMU Server from a Container to a new Container/Server for High Availability

IBM currently provides an option to install/manage/run SMU using a Red Hat (Podman)/Linux (Docker) container. It would be very useful for clients to have detailed instructions on how to make a copy of an existing SMU container to create a high ava...
29 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Support HTTPS Connection Between SMU and TEPS

SMU should use HTTPS/port 15201 instead of HTTP/port 15200 for connections to the TEPS.
4 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

Request for application not visible in SMU when coming from Rest Server (API)

I notice the following in SMU: if an application (e.g.) is stopped via the api then it is not visible in SMU that there is a vote/request for this application. That's not very convenient.....You can now see that an application is DOWN but not why ...
4 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from SMU

GDPS is able to control a fully automated Shutdown/IPL initiated from the GDPS control panel. We would like to the have the same functionality for non GDPS systems. The Operator should have the possibility to initiate and control the following act...
about 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

SMU and GDPS - Hardware Integration

When integrating HW views into SMU it would be good to have GDPS facilities integrated, also.
over 4 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Future consideration

Default SMU Panel with INGPLEX Functionality

We're users of the INGPLEX commands with the TN3270 Panels. Some functionality is really useful such as the INGPLEX IPL, SVCDUMP, SLIP etc. panels. We would like to see a default panel within SMU which has the same functionality as the TN3270 Pane...
6 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Use of wildcards in the search option SMU

The use of wildcards in the search option of the SA widgets in SMU. Now you can only filter by default on the beginning of the name or you have to set all kinds of filters (e.g.: starts with and ends with).
almost 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Configuration refresh and relative generation

The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
6 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Perform ITM/Omegamon actions in SMU

It is useful to have a possibility to perform ITM actions (such as cancelling CICS transactions and DB2 threads) in SMU. Of course, this will then have to be done under the userid of the user, so that everything is neatly arranged via the existin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

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