This is the community forum for SMA Technologies' customers to exchange solution and product ideas for the full suite of SMA products.

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Status Descriptions:

Awaiting approval: all new ideas will be approved by SMA Technologies' Product Management team before they are displayed on this forum.
Collecting community feedback: ideas which have been reviewed by SMA Technologies' Product Management team but require more feedback. We are looking for additional votes as well as comments from our global user base.
Development backlog: all ideas which have been prioritized by SMA Technologies' Product Management team and are either in queue or are currently being developed.
Done: ideas which were included in a shipped release.
Declined: ideas which are no longer being considered.

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

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

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

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

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

$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

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

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

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

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

Allow Full-Control of Manual Edits to Self-Service Events

We would like to make a self-service button that can be used to trigger different kinds of events, based on the user's choice. However, when attempting to manually ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (22 Mar, '18) • Upvoted: 27 Dec, '22 • Comments: 0

Collecting community feedback OpCon

Enable jobs to be dependent on a job's events being processed

We were told that if an event is executed by a job, there's no guarantee that OpCon will have that event processed before starting the next dependent job. This ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (22 Feb, '18) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Filtering based on tag with operator AND not only the OR

As a user I would like to be able to filter my views for job having Critical AND Accounting tags. Today it is always OR

Suggested by: Hidden identity (21 Feb, '18) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Multi-Factor Authentication for Security Compliance

For Financial Institutions, Dual-Factor authentication has been requested a number of times, most recently by Alliant CU. They have a goal to become PCI compliant ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (06 Dec, '17) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Add .csv output for reports

Please add the possibility to be able to automatically run a report job in opcon which saves the output in CSV format. Currently that is not possible. with .csv we ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Nov, '17) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Import Export feature for Notification Manager

We would like OpCon Import/Export functionality for notification manager so we can move changes from one database to another.

Suggested by: Hidden identity (08 May, '17) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Collecting community feedback OpCon

Creating History Report in Enterprise Manager of Failed Jobs(But, exclude Failed Jobs that are Marke

Currently for our monthly reports we are uploading graphs of all failed jobs that have failed more than once in a month. But, this report is also including those ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Dec, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Manage job status for file arrival jobs

Have some specific return code for file arrival job and lets the customer to decide if the job is good or failed. Exemples : 0=file is arrived, 1=end time is reached, ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (24 Oct, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Enhance Workflow designer view

It would be great to have the build status displayed as well in the Job box (Hold, skipped, .....) and also the jobs details disable build option. and also have ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 Oct, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Collecting community feedback OpCon

System Property for Job Output Filename

Sometimes we need to be able to interact with the job output outside of a failure occurring. Right now the only way to attach the job output is through the ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (31 May, '16) • Upvoted: 17 Aug, '22 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Service Request Process Indicator should show the status of the startet Jobs from the request

D489: Today when a self service request has been submittet, the status response only indicates, that the service request has been completet, has failed or is in ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Collecting community feedback OpCon

Improve SMArt Email Attachment Download

The download attachments option for SMArt Email is really great! We do additional processing after download the file, and would like to see more options in SMArt ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 07 Apr, '22 • Comments: 0

Collecting community feedback OpCon

Enterprise Manager Font Size

D267: Could you make the font size of the Enterprise Manager configurable without changing the resolution of the PC itself?

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

History management schedule highlight on job statuses

D455: At the moment if you select a job status (e.g. failed jobs) within the EM History management Job Statuses frame this will not be visible by selecting the ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Global Multi Instance

D411: Allow for a "Global Multi Instance." Currently we have many multi instance jobs with the same set of instances defined, exampleINST=05INST=10INST=12INST=33 When ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Granular User Permissions

D478: We desparately need OpCon to provide more granularity in regards to user permissions. There are too many menus that require full access just to allow read ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Keyboard Shortcuts for the Daily Job Menu

D500: Created Feb 1 2016 Hello , Using the mouse is not always fast, I wish I could have keyboards short-cuts Example: CTRL + E edit the job selected in the ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Job dependencies on a frequency of a job

D171: We like to be able to make a job dependency on another job for a specific frequency. Example: JobA has five different frequency's, all are from Mo-Vr- where is ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Simplify of the security model

D207: Right now it is not possible, to give users with multiple roles assigned, different functions, without using departments. It would be nice to have the ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Ability to assign the machine with a property

D213: When making jobs in a test environment we use our test servers and when moving to production we have to go thru each job and switch the primary machine to our ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

RSJ Enhancment - Supported BATCHRETURNCODES from Episys

D256: Symitar released the ability to manipulate BATCHRETURNCODES within their software so that programmers can specify a return code value. This functionality ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Add script verification to OpCon

D272: Add the possibility that OpCon can check if the scripts on the "destination" server are the scripts that opcon should execute. Perhaps the scripts should reside ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Maintain Machines / different privileges for Run vs Build

D391: Hello, According to documentation, Maintain Machines Grants access to functions related to maintaining Machines. ? View all defined Machines ? Add new Machines ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Enterprise Manager - History Management

D424: It would be nice to include canceled job as an option under "Job Statuses."

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Make the Current Day in List View bold or automatically expanded.

D431: As a new user to OpCon I have found one small item that would help us in our day to day monitoring of the system. If when we displayed the "List View" it may be ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

New Report to show what jobs are in Disable Build

D356: We need a report that will give us detail information for all jobs in "Disable Build" similar to the information from the report "Jobs with initial status of Do ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Enhancement for command line

D348: I have a suggestion to make an improvement in the Enterprise Manager command line. EM doesn't appreciate certain styles of apostrophe in the command line (and ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Email notification with link to job output

D345: We would like to see the option to hyperlink in email notifications. We send notifications to users letting them know their job has completed, and we want to ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Notifications based on Tag

D281: I would like to be able to set notifications based on jobs with a specific tag associated with it. For example, could we set a notification to send an email to ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon

Provide view only access to all configuration screens in Enterprise Manager

D262: By default we restrict all privileges that allow update access via the EM. This means that much of the configuration and status information is not available ...

Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) • Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 • Comments: 0

Declined OpCon