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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

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

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

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

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

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

Identify Agents and Connectors being executed by OpCon and Show for Upgrade

Idea: OpCon should have a way that when an Agent or Connector is used in execution, that the Agent or Connector would first talk to the OpCon database and 'present' ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 15 Jul, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Run again for recurring jobs not limited to finished ok status.

The reccuring jobs are limited to the status finished ok. There are situations where the job should run again for the next occurence, even if it fails. Having an ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 23 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback Automation Brick OpCon

Forgot Password link so that a user with an existing email address in the system, could click on a f

Currently, the user has to contact the Admin person with rights from Enterprise Manager to click the "Reset Password" button under User Accounts. A Forgot Password ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (01 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 10 Aug, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Solution MANAGER - action on a job without confirmation request

In SMA Solution Manager, When you do an action on a job in the daily, "Release" in my example, The action is executed immediately, without any confirmation message ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 22 Aug, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Prioritize on demand Schedule Builds over Auto

Auto-Built Schedules get caught in a queue until SchedMan can finish building them all. If a $SCHEDULE:BUILD event (or a $JOB:ADD for a Container Job which queues up ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (05 Mar, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Embed Chronoman into Sam.

Eliminate the need for a separate SMAODBCConfiguration.dat file to be created. This file does not get created when installing the Mslsam so it must be manually done.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (06 Feb, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

EM: Can SubSchedule get the state "In Process - Contains Failed Jobs"

We noticed that SubSchedules do not pass on the "containes Failed Jobs" status as normal jobs and schedules do. As seen on the attached screenshots, the SubSchedule ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (31 Jan, '20) Upvoted: 04 Jan Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Have way for Vision frequencies to use master holiday calendar

when using frequencies in Vision, have it also using the master holiday calendar. So things that are not run on a holiday, are not displayed in vision that day.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (16 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 31 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

SMA Resource Monitor in Solution Manager

The File Arrived Job Action was a nice addition to OpCon, but there are times when running Windows based file monitors as a service is a better fit. We need the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Packaged Frequencies, Group Frequencies, Nested Frequencies, Master Freuquency?

Imagine a world, where you only had to add one "packaged" frequency that essentially is defined by multiple frequencies. SCENARIO. I run a job daily, add the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (30 Nov, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Workflow Designer Event Popup Information

In Enterprise Manager, when looking at the Workflow designer, if I see a job with an event on it, I would like to know some small details of that event, or the event ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Nov, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

SAML Authentification for Solution Manager

The authentication to Solution Manager needs to be enhanced/modernized. Providing a SAML connection would simplify OpCon administration while providing a secure ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Nov, '19) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Ability to see the CPU, DISK, I/O usage per job.

Client has a wish list item that reads "Ability to see the CPU, DISK, I/O usage per job in order to know which jobs are impacting the system most during certain ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jul, '19) Upvoted: 09 Aug, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Solution Manager - Self Service - file upload user input

It would be useful that Self-service provide a "file upload" user input type. Some of final users have to submit such a kind of parameter before starting a job. for ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 May, '19) Upvoted: 28 Feb Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Enhance any scripts provided with OpCon to include error logic/verification routines

I recently saw a support ticket issue where a customer site had OpCon stop processing because their tran log filled up within the SQL database. They were running the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (18 Dec, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Allow OpCon to dynamically determine date/time formatting

Of our 142 global properties, 40 of them are various formats of $DATE, $SCHEDULE DATE, and $TIME. It would be great if OpCon could dynamically determine how to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (02 Nov, '18) Upvoted: 29 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Better Customization of Categories in Self Service

Allow users to customize the background color of categories rather than limiting them to a preset selection. We may be the exception, but I could see us running out ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (25 Apr, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

PERT: Ability to view the jobs of a subschedule, just by clicking on the plus sign to open the job c

Makes easier to view of the whole workflow, when you have jobcontainers/subschedules. The attached file shows how should work.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (17 Apr, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

User Initiated Password Resets

What if we had the ability for a user to initiate a password reset using self-service? Perhaps an elevated event of some sort that could be added to a button or a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Mar, '18) Upvoted: 22 Mar, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Whatsapp Notifications

Opcon has the option to send notifications by email or text message, but many users want to receive this notifications by whastapp, this would be great.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (28 Feb, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

EM: Enhance and synchronize File Arrival jobs for Windows and IBM i (& others?)

User experience, including SMA internal QA users, suggests that it is confusing to have look-alike File Arrival job definitions for Windows and IBM i, and yet the job ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Feb, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Format Date in Matrix/List as green/red/black if schedules for that date have completed/failed/are r

The schedules are listed in green if all jobs in them have completed, red if anything has failed, or black if anything is still running. It would be great if the date ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (20 Dec, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Make Workflow Designer window move automatically when dragging job

If you have a very long schedule, typically vertically oriented, it's a tedious process to use Workflow Designer to move a new job to the bottom of the schedule to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (23 Jun, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Central Auditing for Service Request Executions

While we have "click history" for Self Service, we don't have any audit records that are centrally stored. Our Audit methodology at this point is database-centric so ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 May, '17) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Allow the log file to be opened directly from Enterprise Manager when a “Schedule Check” is done.

When a "Schedule Check" is done, you cannot click to open the log file that was generated. Instead, you must open the file by going directly to the file on the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 Apr, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Separate Administrative Items

Can the global properties, calendars, thresholds and resources be separated in OpCon? De Volksbank likes to see that every user group can only change its own global ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 Apr, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Login Screen, Version Number

Hello, at the moment, we are working with different versions of Opcon at the same time. (We prepare an upgrade.) After timeout, the EM disconnects the database. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (28 Feb, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Notification Manager, Job added trigger

Add a new job trigger so that a notification can be sent when a job is added to the schedule.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (31 Jan, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Job Master - Frequency tab - Common settings for all frequencies

Hello, In Job Master screen, in Frequency Tab, i'd like to see an option to make all time settings common for all frequencies. It's already possible in Events Tab ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Jan, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Propagate Master job changes to all Daily instances

Hello, We work today with 2 Days in advance, and when we have to make a change to a job in Job Master that we know is permanent and must go to the daily, we have to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (16 Nov, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Use properties in embedded scripts

We can use properties on the command line for Windows, but when the script is created as an embedded script, the properties are not resolved.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (23 Oct, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

schedule dependencies

Add the possibility to add dependencies between schedules and not only jobs. So we can wait a schedule to finish before the other one start. Right now we have to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (22 Sep, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Restart a Job without ENS

our opcon is connected to an alerting system and an automatic ticket system. When a job fail during the night, a ticket is created. The morning, during the analysis, ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (16 Aug, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Schedman logs management

It would be great to have these logs managed the same way than others : One folder by day, number of days managed with parameters. Right now, on sites where they have ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (17 Jun, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Override the frequency of all jobs in a schedule to make an on-demand build

Good morning, Here, we have a lot of different frequencies, for example: seasons change, end of month, end of year, yearly accounting closing, ... I would like the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (17 Jun, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Enhance Schedule Waiting status

Reported multiple time by customers, I have been also faced to this issue. Sometimes a schedule is waiting in its daily, the start time is reached, but stays in ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Jun, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

New Schedule status : Manual run

Hi Everyone. I could be powerful to have a new schedule status when you debug a schedule : be able to start job manually one by one. Currently I put all job of the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (01 Jun, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Get and Set the value of a Job's Latest Start Time

During the 16.0 live webinars, customers voted on new system properties, and one of them was the ability to GET and SET the value of a new system property for a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (19 May, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Get and Set the value of a Job's Start Offset Time

During the 16.0 live webinars, customers voted on new system properties, and one of them was the ability to GET and SET the value of a new system property for a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (19 May, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

To allow a schedule built for a past date via an event to be built released.

In some instances customers need to be able to trigger a $SCHEDULE:BUILD for a past date. Currently, schedules that are built in the past are built on hold. The ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (17 May, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

I'd like a way to define my own reports out of OpCon that's more user friendly than birt or SQL quer

The predefined reports don't cover all of my reporting needs. If possible, it would be nice if it was in Enterprise manager.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (05 May, '16) Upvoted: 10 Feb, '22 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Able to use Global Properties in the Machine Selection / Machine Group Selection of job details

D509: Created Mar 29 2016 I like to be able to put into the Job Master - Job Details screen an Global Property for the Machine selection / Machine Group Selection. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon