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RSJ Enhancment - Batch job precheck process

D257: Today if there is any issue with the Episys batch job setup like missing jobs, missing repgens to run, etc then the RSJ job fails after having run up to that ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined Connectors

Enhancement to Windows Job Sub-Typ WS_FTP Pro

D470: Actualy the Windows Job Sub-Typ WS_FTP Pro allows only simple transfers between an FTP server and a client system. That means, its only possible to specify a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined Windows Agent

User defined Sort order for Categories in Self Service

D485: Today when we create categories in Self Service, they are sorted in alphabetical order of their names. Thats not what we want to have. It would be desirable to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

File Watcher Job Action Advanced Failure Criteria?

So I really wanted to use this job action today since I'm at a site with 15.3. Here's my situation: I am attempting to download files every day from an FTP site ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Notification Manager "missing" triggers

I just realized that in Notification Manager there is no capability for 'Job Completion Complex Expressions', or Exit Description' for an Event. The WSUS(Windows ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Self Service | User Input Type

Could we also include a check box option and radio button option for User Input Type of Self Service? I would assume that both would use a mechanism similar to the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

File Watcher Job Action - check for X seconds/minutes

Instead of only a start/end time for file watching, it would be nice to have the ability to watch for X seconds/minutes before the it stops watching. Thanks, Josh
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Windows Batch User account integration with AD

| 8/26/2014 9:34:42 | bdemaree@smasolutions.it | Guam, George, and I are at Data Processing Inc (DPI) this week. They have a request which lead to multiple requests. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Axway job subtype

A subtype for Axway to make it easier/faster to setup Axway file transfer jobs.
Suggested by: Bruce Jernell (10 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 24 Mar, '21 Comments: 3
Collecting community feedback Connectors File Transfer

Introduce Priority for Failures

If a job were to fail, then the job should have a Failure Priority setting that can be used to setup monitoring and alerting. So, for all priority Critical ...
Suggested by: Merly (14 Jul, '22) Upvoted: 01 Sep, '22 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback

Warn when users roles are being removed if events were created by that user

When editing a users roles, if removing a role that will effect the operation of the events that that user created. For example, we removed roles from a user that ...
Suggested by: Rorik Melberg (25 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 11 May, '21 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback Web UI

Record Additional Information on Master Jobs/Schedules (Creation User/Date, Modified User/Date, etc)

Occasionally we'll be looking through our OpCon environment and find a job that we'd like to have more information on. This could be information such as: When the ...
Suggested by: Brady Sikes (04 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 18 Mar, '21 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback Audit/History

Convert hundreds of Fiserv DNA jobs into OpCon job sub-type

Convert DNA Template exports Opcon jobs to command-line Windows jobs.. and will convert hundreds of jobs into Opcon very quickly. Can we export the Fiserv DNA Opcon ...
Suggested by: Ben Adams (29 Jan, '21) Upvoted: 17 Jun, '21 Comments: 1
Development backlog Connectors Fiserv_DNA

Capture parsed job output into Global variable or schedule/job instance

I'd like to take output from a job and capture some piece of that to help pass along to subsequent jobs. This would be more dynamic than parsing output to determine ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (22 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 17 Aug, '22 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Duplication Notification Trigger - Notification Manager

D249: Be able to replication/copy a notification trigger and its Defined Notifications rather than creating a new one from scratch.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Declined OpCon

SMA Self Service-need a way to control the display order

D421: All buttons are placed in order by their creation date. We need a way to control the display order otherwise the Buttons quickly get placed in a random order. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Declined OpCon

Job Sub-Type for SMARunJasperReportsJob

Hi Guys, I've already discussed this with Francios a bit. About 1/3 of what we normally do at a Corelation site is automating Jasper Reports. The Run Corelation Job ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Declined OpCon

Create a null job type for all hosts, to allow for "prerun only" jobs

Sometimes it is useful to separate preruns from the jobs that require them, either to apply the same preruns to multiple jobs without rerunning them, or to simplify ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 02 May, '22 Comments: 1
Declined OpCon

Schedule Search when Adding Notifiation Group based on Job

When adding a new notification group for the Type: Job, you can search for individual Job Names but not Schedule Name. If I want to select a couple of jobs in a ...
Suggested by: MO (03 Apr) Upvoted: 18 May Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Be able to Add a Job in Schedule Master in Solution Manager

It would be nice if, at the top of the Schedule list in SM, there was a 'Add Job' button that was only available when ONE schedule was selected. This would cut down ...
Suggested by: MO (22 Mar) Upvoted: 18 May Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Opcon Plugin for centreon

Hi, Can we have an Opcon plugin in Centreon ? There is sevral hundred of plugin (for example for ansible, github, kasperski, microsoft wsus, salesforce, ....) but ...
Suggested by: Jerome (30 Jan) Upvoted: 17 Feb Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

resource monitor fips compliant

We have cloud servers that are required to have FIPS enabled, but resource monitor is not currently FIPS compliant. We think this feature should be added as it has ...
Suggested by: Richard Robertson (26 Jan) Upvoted: 06 Mar Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Allow documentation to return all search results

Currently, OpCon documentation only seems to return 8 search results. Usually, if I'm searching the doc, it's for an obscure detail that isn't likely to be within the ...
Suggested by: Brady Sikes (29 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 04 Apr Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Add .xlsx as output format type for WebServices Connector

It's currently not possible with Web Services connector to retrieve in the "Output File" an .xlsx file. The response returned by the API in this format is unreadable. ...
Suggested by: Max (04 Aug, '22) Upvoted: 03 Jan Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback WS Connector

Cleanup of sm logs and sm-api logs

Currently there is no automated way of cleaning up the sm logs and the sm-api logs, one needs to add a job or something similar to handle this. It would be great if ...
Suggested by: Debbie (18 May, '22) Upvoted: 05 Oct, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Webservice connector Step Completion

Hello, I need to use regex for "Good Finish" and "Bad Finish" fields in Step Completion of Webservice connector. In my case, I want to check a json field where ...
Suggested by: FOURNIER (04 Apr, '22) Upvoted: 08 Feb Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Allow Active Directory accounts on UNIX Job type

Our need is to address the server directly from a domain account and not from a local user account to have more flexibility and security. The domain account is ...
Suggested by: Olivier Tifa (17 Mar, '22) Upvoted: 22 Mar, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Solution Manager - self-service button

Hello. It would be great to be able to allow/deny access to a self service button per user. Currently, this is not possible. The only possibility is to grant by ...
Suggested by: Stéphane GAGNEUX (08 Feb, '22) Upvoted: 30 Jan Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Set cancelled to all sub-schedule jobs when set bulk cancel from master schedule

When set bulk cancel from master schedule, the build status update didn't perform full update/cancel to jobs underneath sub-schedule. The bulk cancel successfully ...
Suggested by: Kim Neng Farm (13 Sep, '21) Upvoted: 22 Mar, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

WFL Repository

I would be helpful if OpCon had the ability to be our WFL repository. I envision that it would be like Programmer’s Workbench where you can check syntax, etc., but it ...
Suggested by: Kevin Partch (06 Aug, '21) Upvoted: 23 Jan Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

Convert Resource Monitor to an agent

Instead of being a separate/ui, have the Resource monitor be an agent. Jobs created for the agent are monitors that could then send information/events as needed per ...
Suggested by: Bruce Jernell (12 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 20 Aug, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

EM Workflow Designer - Create job ux improvement

When creating a job in EM Workflow Designer currently, EM opens a new window to Job Master. Typically when Workflow Designer is being used, its to design a workflow ...
Suggested by: Bruce Jernell (12 Mar, '21) Upvoted: 09 Aug, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback

OWI command line interface

Add the capability to run the OWI tool from a command line for automation purposes. Ex. Pre-download executables, download and silent install/upgrade agents or ...
Suggested by: Bruce Jernell (12 Feb, '21) Upvoted: 05 Apr, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback Installation UX

Use Encrypted Tokens in Notification Manager

Hello, We would like to use Encrypted Token defined in Global Properties in Notification Manager In "Run Command" for example When we use Encrypted Token, the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Nov, '20) Upvoted: 02 Jul, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback Automation Brick OpCon Security

Display the Next run schedule time for jobs with "Run again" option

When a job with recurring option has run at least one time, in all interfaces (EM, Solution Manager), the execution hour (in latrix or operations view) is the LAST ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 07 Feb, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Web UI

Forecast tool to show predicted jobs running during a time slot.

The goal is to obtain jobs running during a maintenance time window (for a machine, or an application : i.e. filtering capabilities should be included). when ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 16 Feb, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Use the Agent's UTC time offset to automatically adjust start times

Daylight savings time is not observed by all time zones. Not only that but the date the time changes is not consistent across time zones. If an Agent is running on a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 16 Mar Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Can You accept login with active Directory account on Unix / Linux

I want using IDM for executing job in Unix and Linux Server but we can't registre windows account in user Unix with the enterprise manger
Suggested by: Hidden identity (06 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 10 Feb, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback UNIX/Linux Agent

List of transformation rules applied in the Deployment records

When we list the deployment records we can see in a column that some transformation rules were applied for this deployment. Nowhere we can see what transformation ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (28 Apr, '20) Upvoted: 06 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Deploy

Migrations Tools for the EASE Connector

Many clients who outsource Episys to the Jack Henry Datacenter's EASE solution opt to keep OpCon on premise and run many of their core processes via our EASE ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (05 Mar, '20) Upvoted: 09 Aug, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback Connectors

Notification Manager - Trigger Based on End Code

We would like Notification Manager to be able to have notifications triggered based on a job's end code. We have a few scripts that depending on how the script runs, ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 11 Feb, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Automated process that will extract Audit data daily to a log file.

We would like to have the ability to nightly be able to generate the prior days audit logs and have them placed into a daily file. They can still reside in the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 12 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Web UI for OpCon Deploy

Users need to be able to access OpCon Deploy without installing a desktop client. * The user interface should have a similar look and feel of Solution Manager. * We ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 03 Mar Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Deploy

Add Clarity to OpCon Deploy Installation Wizard

The installation wizard for OpCon Deploy needs more clarity. Multiple ports are configured for different components of OpCon Deploy. The installation wizard is not ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Deploy

Replacing Properties

The default setting replaces Property values with those within the Deploy database. There is a Global Setting for each Server but the default value of this setting ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 29 Oct, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Deploy

Mask user/pass information in LookFor* job outputs

User/pass info is in clear text in the job outputs of LookFor* jobs (RSJ 19). Let's mask it please.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Nov, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

[[$SCHEDULE DATE yymmdd(bom)]]

Right now we have to hard code the (1st) of the month with several system properties when answering prompts. We have (-/+eom) offsets it would be nice to have a (bom) ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Better message for failed SMAFT job

Generic message are often being displayed for failed job on Job Information screen --> Configuration --> Detailed Job Message More useful and relevant message is needed
Suggested by: Hidden identity (04 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback UNIX/Linux Agent

Clear Resource Reservation Lock

We experienced an issue where a user removed the resource dependency on a daily job after it had already set a reservation lock (the resource was already in use by ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (18 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 22 Aug, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Expandable forms/fields in Self Service

I'm running into a situation where it would be helpful to have self service act as a form for input information and be able to perform OpCon events based on each ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon