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WebSphere Automation

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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...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration

Integrate with ServiceNow

ServiceNow is how we track change tickets. It would be nice if WebSphere Automation integrated with ServiceNow so that the installations driven by WebSphere Automation could be started from ServiceNow flows.
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Provide "summary view" of WebSphere Automation registered servers, total servers, number of cores, etc

Since WebSphere servers are registered with WebSphere Automation, and WebSphere Automation is licensed on the total number of cores available to the registered WebSphere servers, we should provide a "summary page" that shows the total number of re...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Add a "Test" email button

When configuring the email server settings, it would be very helpful to have a "Test connection" type button to ensure the mail configuration works. In the event of an error, exposing the error through the UI (and not requiring directions to the p...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide CVE tracking also for the IBM HTTP Server incl. web server plugin #emea #dach

Next to tracking the CVEs for tWAS and Liberty incl. JDK, it would also help if WSA could also track the CVEs for IBM HTTP Server incl. web server plugin.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Filtering in notification

There is no filter to choose under what criteria to send notification to whom. e.g. Different teams are responsible for different cells, so notification can be sent based on cell names and the target team. Or some managers prefer to get notificati...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Integrate with AppDynamics for health information

No description provided
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Integrate with Elastic Stack for health data

Integrate with Elastic Stack for health data
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration

Enhance filtering in the dashboard

On the WSA dashboard, 'Servers' tab, the filter is by cell name, CVE, and WAS version only, my customer prefers to have filtered by server name as well.On the 'Notification configuration', there is no filter to choose under what criteria to send n...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration