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New Report - Self Service Buttons by Role

I'd like an OpCon report that will show me self service buttons assigned to each role.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 26 May, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Add a browse for file input type

We have some self-service buttons that involve processing a file. Currently, a user needs to place the file in a predefined directory or input the full path to the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (25 Jul, '17) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Preview of the command line (replacing "Global Properties")

D467: Hello , I use "Global Properties" and when entering the command line, and I can not perform preview. I would like to have a button that shows me the command ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 16 Jun, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Export csv Joblist

D307: There is the possobility to extract a csv-file from the matrix-view. Would be cool, if an extract would be also possiblefor a master-schedule (for now, we run ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Community driven portal

D319: I like to see that SMA would open up an community portal for customers to help other customers or even SMA.BrightIdeas is an start but really based on ideas. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Add the HELO parameter to manage secure connections to SMTP Gmail

Dans les options SMTP du serveur, ajouter le paramètre HELO pour gérer les connexions sécurisé à smtp-relay.gmail.com In the server SMTP options, add the HELO ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Apr, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

OpCon Hung Scripts - Please add -l option to sendemail so server feedback can be captured in a log w

Currently, when a HUNG script is initiated, the sendemail program is run, however, no log is create from the sendemail program itself. Please add the -l option to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (20 Feb, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Embedded script - sub programs

Hello would it be possible to provide calls to sub-scripts in an embedded script ? Lots of scripts we use are already using calls to subprograms. If we want to put ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (05 Feb, '18) Upvoted: 01 Feb, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Expand Detailed Job Messages ( FC 61) Usage in all Agents

The Detailed Job Messages (FC61) found under Job Information > Configuration > Operations Related Information is a field customers can use to get more information ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (23 Jun, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Ability to set Workdays per week on individual jobs, not just schedules.

D363: I would like "Workdays per week" to be either moved to the job level, or an override added to job in addition to schedule level. We have a large schedule that ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Print or PDF Function in Job Master

D369: Provide a print function or pdf output of the selected schedule in job master with all the sub jobs and their details. Similar to the workflow designer but with ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

A job Container without any job running should not be Running

D350: Hello When a job container stops on a Failed Job and still contains jobs "Waiting/Qualifying", it should not be in "Running" Status.A new status should be ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Prohibit users/roles to modify the Master Holiday calendar

D434: Is it possible to create a Function Privilege on specific roles for maintaining Master Holiday calendar only?With the Maintain Calendars Function users/roles ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 29 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

PDF API Documentation

We have some customers that are looking for the API documentation but aren't able to access the Stoplight site due to internal policy, for example, the IRS. We need ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Add Advanced Failure Criteria for Job Type - File Transfer

If there is not a file available to transfer, the job fails with exit code 1005 in our environment. It would be nice to have the Advanced Failure Criteria available ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (28 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 03 Feb, '21 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon SMAFT

Add Property For Username of Latest Status Change

With the addition of the "Under Review" and "Fixed" statuses, we'd like to be able to send an email out, indicating who is reviewing the problem. Notification Manager ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Mar, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Allow Self Service to accept input files for downstream processing

Many Self Service processes include a file used during downstream processing. The location and name of the file could change depending on the end user. To minimize ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 12 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Notification Manager alerts for changes/delete of Frequency,Global Properties,etc.

Would like to have some kind of Notification Manager alert based on changes to or deletions of frequencies, global properties and maybe other objects. Since Events ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (24 May, '18) Upvoted: 29 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Central View of SMA Resource Monitor Status and Activity

Would also be helpful to be able to see Resource Monitor status and activity counts against a server (Table list view could have RM info.) Even better if it was in ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Mar, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

SmartEmail enhancement

As a customer I would like to be able to detache attachments from emails matching rules as those defined for launching events, and in the meantime having the name of ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (28 Jun, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Make 'Days to maintain in Daily' preference available as Server Option

Right now 'Days to maintain in Daily' is a Enterprise Manager preference with a default of 14 days. Some customers have a policy to keep schedules for a defined ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (30 Jan, '17) Upvoted: 15 Sep, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

New function in the tag manager

Hi, Today, It's not easy to add the same tag in several jobs. For exemple, I would like create a new tag "backup" on all backup jobs. I have 25 jobs. I must do 25 ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (17 Aug, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Documentation Online

Since we have converted to online help, I have repeatedly needed to print and attach information to emails. Especially in Release Announcements where we try to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Jun, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Disable Event Wizard Creation to create mass envent.

D301: The event creation wizard is very powerfull for beginners.Since the V5, we can add event on return code, this wonderful feature added new panels on the event ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

TAG on the schedule

D327: Currently the tag is an option of the "job object"it's could be powerfull to have the same feature but on the "schedule object"
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

machines status view - add an extra columm for commentary

D255: we like an extra field/column in the machines status view under the Enterprise Manager were it is possible to add extra information. when a machine is powered ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Secure Calendar modifications with save button

D433: Changes made to Calendars (even the Master Holiday) do not have to be confirmed with the save button (or cannot be undone with the cancel button)We've seen ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Opcon User Access reporting

D344: Would like to see a User Access report on OPCON which would show all Users with access the the system and their roles and their last sign on date and time, also ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

I really need for hold jobs to be able to be late to start.

D382: I have a lot of jobs in held that are released by file monitors. I need to be able to set a late to start time in the job iteself, but since it's held, it will ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Submit Job Start time with $JOB:ADD event

D394: Add a start time parameter for the $JOB:ADD Event to add a job with a specified start time over an external event.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Read Only view of Calendars

D153: We would like for some OpCon users to have the ability to View the details of a Calendar without being able to add or remove dates.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 29 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Global Properties Replacing Chronoman

What I would like is to have a System Property designated for Chronoman Calculations. (Something like [[$Calulate Date]]). This new property type will require a new ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

External Event Security Idea

| 8/15/2014 18:28:11 | bkennelly@smasolutions.it | We should have a mechanism for agents to mark events as "authenticated", so that the SAM event processor can trust ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Add option to license Self Service user when user added by SMALDAPMon

When users are added to OpCon via SMALDAPMon in version 18.3.1, there is no current way to specify whether they obtain a self service license or not, and they do not ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (04 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 26 May, '21 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Making "Choice" in Self Service a dynamic list

Currently Choice in Self Service is a static list that is user maintained. It would be nice if we could run a job in OpCon or have an event come in externally to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (16 Aug, '17) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon

SMAHoliday.ini should not be provided during the initial install

Customers who move to a new machine and forget to copy over the SMAHoliday.ini from the old machine will get the default values we supply in the SMAHoliday.ini. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Jan, '20) Upvoted: 21 Apr, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Notification Manager Events trigger type

Would be great to be able to setup notifications for failed Events similar to the way we can setup notifications for Machines, Schedules and Jobs. Currently we are ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Allow embedded scripts to integrate with GIT/other version control software

Many customers utilize GIT or another script repository already and would like the ability to sync their repository into OpCon's repository every day. Maybe opening ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 21 Mar, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Embedded Scripts VS Code Integration

It would be nice if there was a better script editor. We use VS Code internally and it has add-ons that can connect to 3rd party scripts and be used as the front end ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (17 Dec, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Better customize Solution Manager

We would like to put our branding onto the Solution Manager Self Service UI. Including logos or other images, additional customized HTML and more color definitions ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (24 May, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Comment field in Matrix view

It would be nice to have the comment Field (which already can be added & viewed in List view) in the Matrix view as well. The Idea is to have the Comment in the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (04 Dec, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Add the ability to select a machine group for the File Transfer job type.

I'd just like to be able to transfer files from a single source to a machine group destination.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (16 Jun, '17) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Update the OPCON_INFO table with the correct SAM patch information which is diaplyed via the EM > He

It would allow support to quickly and reliably identify the SAM release patch a customer is running by selecting the information from the Help menu in the EM . ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Jun, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

SmartEmail enhancement to download only matching emails

Currently the product downloads all mails and attachments, it is not possible to download only the mail(s) and attachment(s) marked matched by the SmartEmail product ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (18 Apr, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

ReturnCodes on events

D258: Opcon is based on returncodes when calling scripts. But it's impossible to get a returncode when sending an event.The only way to check that an event's syntax ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Provide Function Privilege to Manage OpCon Objects

D253: The All Administrative functions includes the Security functions, and this poses a problem because I want my users to be able to manage OpCon Objects, but not ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Central Administration and distriburtion of SMA ResourceMonitor Rules and Actions

D190: It would be nice to be able to have a central administration and distribution of (all) SMA ResourceMonitor rules and action. This might then be an extra feature ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Define Instance related to Frequencies

D165: For Job Instance Definitions, we would like to have the ability to associate instances with Frequencies. All of the other things for jobs (Events, Dependencies, ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Hyperlink in the Master Job Documentation Tab of a

D505: Created Feb 18 2016 To have a Hyperlink in the Master Job Documentation tab. This will allow a link of a word document of the job information which is on a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Easy navigation and dependency view in the workflow designer

D483: Easy navigation and dependency view in the workflow designer ContextIn a conception mode and when working in the Master environment, it is possible to have a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon