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My ideas: WebSphere Automation

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Including Installation Manager updates

When patching WebSphere environments with Installation Manager there is an option to check for IM updates, there doesn't appear to be an option for that in WSA. It would be beneficial to have the option to update the Installation Manager software ...
3 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updates to each application server within that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signific...
6 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Configure Polling Intervals

Can we make the polling( WSA to WAS every 15 minutes, WSA to IBM every 1 hour) intervals configurable?
6 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing these fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updating to each application server on that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signi...
7 months ago in WebSphere Automation 3 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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.
almost 2 years 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...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under 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.
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 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 ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration