This is the community forum for SMA Technologies' customers to exchange solution and product ideas for the full suite of SMA products.
A few small forum rules:
- Please do not bundle multiple requests into a single idea.
- Vote on ideas you want prioritized instead of every idea you like. There are many good ideas. We want to know which are considered the most critical.
- Be respectful in all ideas and comments submitted.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Declined
OpCon
Enterprise Manager - History Management
D424: It would be nice to include canceled job as an option under "Job Statuses."
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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?
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Collecting community feedback
OpCon
Add a "Write File" message type to the JORS protocol
| Brian Kennelly |
2/11/15
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Currently, the JORS protocol has "List" and "Read file" message types, which are sufficient for obtaining job output or JCL/script ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Collecting community feedback
Authentication: increased character limit in password
With the new security rules, this limit must be able to be lifted or increased.
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. ...
Collecting community feedback
File Transfer