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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

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

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

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

Ability to delete a schedule

Some users would like the ability to delete a schedule once it is imported into Deploy.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 09 Sep, '22 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon Deploy

Use ECOF in embedded scripts

Is it possible to add an option to use ECOF in Embedded scripts ? (SMA-00067854)
Suggested by: Hidden identity (17 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 29 Mar, '22 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback Windows Agent

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

Ability to create custom API endpoints

Have an API agent that lets you specify a custom endpoint that could be triggered from other applications, similar to webhooks in other applications. X event ...
Suggested by: Bruce Jernell (12 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 27 Jul, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

API for Deploy functions automation.

Give the ability to automate import, simulation, deployement functions through API.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (12 Mar, '20) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Deploy

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

Events associated with the user who created them

D416: Customer : LODH (Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch) Opcon release : X5.20 Currently when a user creates some internal events associated to a job, these events are ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 25 Feb, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

$KILL:JOB - Exit Code

D488: Dear community, This post to suggest the creation of a SPECIFIC EXIT CODE for $KILL.JOB Events. Today it is not possible to distinguish a voluntary killed job ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Create machines via SMADDI

D338: The idea is to be able to create machines in the Opcon DB via SMADDI. This could be used to automate machine additions via scripts Example of things we want to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Add black out time frames to Notification Manager

D323: Could we have blackout time frames on certain policies in notification manager where a job could fail at 2AM, but notifications would not be sent out until 6AM? ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Resource Tracking

D266: As an OpCon administrator it would be helpful to be able to track and report on OpCon Resource utilization. Example: I have a resource configured to limit the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined 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

Schedule level dependencies

D410: Create schedule level dependencies. Having a schedule dependent on another schedule instead of creating multiple inter-schedule job dependencies would make ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Ability to give roles privileges to just parts of master jobs, but not all.

D364: We would like to be able to give roles authority to update different parts of master jobs without giving them access to all of it.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Separate function rights for the new features in the 5.20 Enterprise Manager

D311: In the 5.20 release there are three new functions build into the Enterprise Manager. Tag ManagerSchedule ExtractFrequency Manager When I want to give someone, ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Opcon remembers the positioning of Machines in the Machine Status (Map) view

D283: It would be nice if Opcon remembered where you positioned your machines in the Map view on under the Machine status window rather than randomizing where they go ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Job status comment immediately visible in the Matrix, and List

D287: Would be useful, almost essential, the ability to add a comment to the state of a job and be able to see this comment in both Matrix visualization and List ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

open more than one List

D245: please add the possibility to open more than one List, to compare different search
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Update Workflow Designer Display after Job Editor Closes

D131: As a Workflow Designer user, I would like the display to update after I Edit a job in the Job Editor and close the Job Editor to return to the Workflow Designer ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Notification Manager - Move/Copy triggers between groups

I know the copying triggers with their settings such as emails has been submitted before, but I was just asked if we could move the entire trigger from one group to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 29 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Retry on failure for Initialization error

Add the option to retry on failure for initialization error. (like a checkbox to allow the retry for the init. error) In some cases, it can be useful to allow the ...
Suggested by: Bagard Maxence (24 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 10 Oct, '22 Comments: 5
Collecting community feedback Automation Brick

Self-service: interaction between form fields

For example When I choose my first value in field 1, field 2 uniquely offers me values related to the field 1.
Suggested by: Manuel (29 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 30 Jan Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback

Create/Setup Jobs through a Wizard

We should make it easy on customers to setup jobs via a wizard: 1. ask for what frequency and ask questions which are assertions or negations (a path of least ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (01 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 16 May, '22 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Term signal for UNIX Job

Basically, it's about having the ability to cancel a running Linux job from the Enterprise Manager so that it does not receive a KILL signal but a different, ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Jul, '19) Upvoted: 16 Feb, '22 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback UNIX/Linux Agent

Change „Primary Machine“ to „Machine Group“

Implement the possibility to change the job-configuration using „Primary Machine" to „Machine Group" - or - change the use of a machine group to the use of a primary ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 Mar, '20) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Deploy

Possibility to reset Event Password

The only way to retrieve an Event password is to look into the Database > Users table where the password is stored (and not encrypted). It's not possible for us to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Make the expressions in OpCon more flexible by allowing wild cards for schedules, jobs, so multiple

Expressions allow users to enter a fully qualified instance property name which includes the schedule or job name. If these names are allowed to have a wild card in ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Feb, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Add note to SMAUtility job scripts where to look for the actual job log

Hello Support gets a lot of support cases where these jobs fail and the customer, for whatever reason, only looks at the job output, and not the job specific log. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Jan, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Ability to pull OpCon data points directly into documentation

One thing we do in MAS land is try to put any special considerations of jobs into documentation. It would be awesome if we could build a documentation template for ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (18 Dec, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Self Service - Multiple Selection

When configuring a button in Self Service to utilize a selection, it would be helpful to allow a user to select multiple values. For instance, say I have a service ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (06 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Allow "Retry on Failure" Jobs to Trigger Failure Events

Periodically we'll run into a situation where we want a job to kick off an event when it fails. If this job is set to retry on failure, It won't submit the event ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (18 May, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon