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WebSphere Automation

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Provision for Configure Automated Emailer for Audit Reports generation in PDF Format and Manual Export of Report in PDF

Provision for Configure Automated Emailer for Audit Reports generation in PDF Format and Manual Export of Report in PDF. Audit Team doesn’t accept the CSV based reports as those are editable so it would be better if the Audit Reports generation ha...
7 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to install Quarterly Fixpacks to the menu choices in the WebSphere Automation tool.

90% of our application maintenance activities are updating WebSphere products via Fixpack upgrade. We do not install fixes unless there is the rare emergency. So the product does not provide enough bandwidth to be considered as a viable new produc...
10 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support WSA deployed to Power (ppc64)

WebSphere Automation supports deployment to OpenShift on Intel / AMD (x64) and IBM Z Linux (s390x) platforms. This RFE is a request to support IBM Power (ppc64) platforms.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support for System i

WSA currently does not support IBM i, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ws-automation?topic=known-issues-limitations#ts-r-known__fixzosiseries. But my customer runs WAS ND on different platforms including Linux, Windows and System i and is interest...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration

Custom Health Investigations

Custom investigations (events and runbook jobs). Provide a means to tie together "custom events" with "custom actions", analogous to custom health policies in WAS ND Intelligent mgmt. Gives us a fallback answer for everything that is not built in ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Integrate with Elastic Stack for health data

Integrate with Elastic Stack for health data
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration

Ability to export events of WebSphere Automation to ELK

Customer requests audit trail at the server level and the events to be sent to ELK; events such as: 1. When a CVE is added to the database 2. When a particular server is scanned and first flagged with the CVE (e.g. due to a newly announced CVE or ...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 4 Not under consideration

Integrate with Prometheus for health data

Integrate with Prometheus for health data
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Export to PDF format (all assets, single server information)

At present, information can be exported as a CSV (comma separated values) format. Exporting the same data in PDF form would also be useful.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration