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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

open with Pert in MATRIX

D236: in MATRIX: please add the option "open with Pert" and "open with Workflow Designer" by right click mouse
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

choose directly which schedule to show on Pert

D220: On PERT: please add a menu to choose directly which schedule to show, rather than having to select it in List or Matrix
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Ability to save the layout of jobs in the workflow designer so they show that way in the pert chart

D212: Have a way to save the layout in the workflow designer so when you view the job in the pert chart it would show in that order, as some things just make more ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Add Record Locking to Job Master

D169: When two people are updating the same record, their is no indication that someone else is updating the record. We would like record locking for updates on all ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Tag all Jobs in a Schedule at the same time

D167: We would like to look into the possibility of adding a tagging option on the schedule level that can be applied to all subsequent jobs.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Add the ability to select multiple schedules to display in PERT

D144: As a PERT user, I would like to have the ability to select one our more schedules to display at the same time in the PERT (not just one or All like it is ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Show "Ignore Exit Code" indicator in Workflow Designer

D140: It would be nice to somehow show if the 'ignore exit code' was selected on a dependency. In my screenshot the D3-C4 has 'ignore exit code' set and the C3-C4 one ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Episys Symop Commands

D286: There are tasks that we perform in Episys that requires us to use symop that could be automated.ÿ I would be nice to be able to issue symop commands/macros ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined Connectors

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

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

Add a "Write File" message type to the JORS protocol

| Brian Kennelly | 2/11/15 | Currently, the JORS protocol has "List" and "Read file" message types, which are sufficient for obtaining job output or JCL/script ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Default port 3100 and 3110 in machines

Good Morning TEAM, I'm sitting back in the training class today and a new customer asked why ports 3100 and 3110 are not defaulted in the JORS port and file transfer ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Self Service migration of Service Requests between OpCon Instances

As a Self-Service user, I need to move Self Service Buttons between OpCon instances (e.g Test OpCon and Prod OpCon). In our case we would want to create/test ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 02 Jun, '22 Comments: 2
Collecting community feedback OpCon Self Service

Sleep in the start program of UNIX LSAM

For some customers, UNIX LSAM is not able to start automatically because port is already used by momentarily by the system. It can be solved by adding a sleep in the ...
Suggested by: B.Maxence (31 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 25 Mar, '22 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback UNIX/Linux Agent

Schedule Build in the SM (differences master/daily before the build)

After modifying a job master or adding a new job in a schedule, we need to build this schedule for next days with overwriting the schedule. Can we have in the new ...
Suggested by: Jerome (05 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 22 Mar, '22 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback Web UI

Enable option to use LDAPS for authentication with Active Directory

We are working with vendors to mitigate security issues with vendor applications using simple LDAP for authentication to Active Directory. A Microsoft high ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (19 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Deploy for Self Service Buttons

We need to be able to migrate Self Service Buttons between OpCon environments. OpCon Deploy should be able to provide the same Change Management features as it does ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon Deploy Self Service

Add Job Information to Solution Manager after Job Status Updates

During the OpCon 16.0 live webinars, we asked for feedback on which order customers would like to see new features added to Solution Manager > Operations. They ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (19 May, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Declined OpCon

Deploy update SAP job definition

When a SAP job is deployed, it is created if if doesn't exist yet in the target SAP system. At the moment, Deploy is only able to create, is this possible to add ...
Suggested by: Bagard Maxence (14 Jan, '22) Upvoted: 10 Oct, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Deploy

Use Job Output Parsing or Advanced Failure Criteria to allow Job Restarts without Job Failures

The ability to use Job Output Parsing or Advanced Failure Criteria to allow a job to restart based off the exit code or result. This would limit the amount of true ...
Suggested by: Joseph Spangenberg (23 Dec, '21) Upvoted: 02 Mar, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Authentication: increased character limit in password

With the new security rules, this limit must be able to be lifted or increased.
Suggested by: Manuel (04 Oct, '21) Upvoted: 30 Jan Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Subtype for WINSCP (SFTP)

WINSCP (https://winscp.net) is a commonly used free SFTP program used for automating file transfers. The subtype could be setup similar to the WSFTP Pro subtype. ...
Suggested by: Bruce Jernell (12 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 14 Dec, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback File Transfer