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Manual Mode On/Off Button

Currently, you have to log on the local TSAMP node to switch Manual Mode on/off. This function should also be provided by AppMan (OpCon and eezcs) as a new step to a "single-point-of-control".
almost 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

samadapter automation for single node domains

In case of n-node domains (n>1) samadapter is integrated into the policy. For single-node-domains this is not supported.You have to options:1. start/stop samadapter outside of TSAMP2. integrate it into the policyWith the 2nd solution samadapter...
almost 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

lssam should display correct NodeName which was defined by preprpnode

Currently, lssam pulls its node names from the NodeNameList of the IBM.PeerNode resource attributes but only uses the shortname.This can lead to different NodeNames: lsrpnode, lsrsrc,... show the defined hostname in the long versionlssam shows a s...
almost 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.

TWS version 8.6.0.1TDWC version 8.6.0.1Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.In critical situations where a server with a TWS agent goes down or have severe performance problems, it is necessary,to identi...
almost 12 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

request with "override depencies"

Today it's not possible to stop a resource that has a stopAfter relationship to an online resource without touching this resource. In SA z/OS you can create requests with parm "Override Dependency". Then, TSA ignores all depencencies.You would lik...
almost 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

List workstations in dynamic pool the same way as its possible for pools in TDWC/TWS

When using dynamic pools with "ordered list" it's difficult for operators to see which workstations that are active/defined in the pools.Should be possible to answer questions like:1. Is the agent part of a pool2. which agents is in a poolRFE 2254...
about 12 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

TNPM. Cisco Device Tech pack to discover virtual interfaces for MPLS devices when physical and virual interface have same ifName

Cisco Device Tech pack cannot discover virtual interfaces for MPLS Cisco devices. Because of that it is not possible to monitor any KPI for these interfaces. This means it is not possible to monitor even MIB II KPIs for these virtual interfaces, a...
over 12 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 4 Not under consideration

cfgeezdmn requires IBM.AgFilesystem: make this an option

When configuring high availability for the automation manager the automation policy always contains IBM.AgFilesystem resources (e.g. for the application manager policy pool or agentless adapter policy pool). However, shared filesystems is not alwa...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Provide more logging info, what was done, when and why. On e2e and FLA level

It is impossible for the customer to understand what the automation engine had done automatically
almost 13 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Circular ForcedDownBy relationships, DependsOn relationship & MANDATORY attribute

Requirement for circular ForcedDownBy relationships, DependsOn relationship & MANDATORY attribute. We'd like to be able to define 2 resources under TSA AM, with relationships so that either one will stop if the other fails. Under TSA MP we can...
almost 13 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration