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Re-Name of SMA File Transfer in Enterprise Manager

Currently, when a SMAft job is created in Enterprise Manager, it is listed as a File Transfer. I would like it to be renamed to "SMA File Transfer (SMAft)" to allow ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (05 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Specify instances to upgrade with MSI

Right now, if we have 2 LSAM agents on a machine, if we run the MSI for LSAM it will automatically upgrade the first one. Currently, there is no way to specify which ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Menu Option to access Community Portal

Allow OpCon to access the Community Portal from within Enterprise Manager or Solution Manager. The user would be logged in behind the scenes when they login to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Parent Schedule Job Actions include nested Jobs

If a Schedule which contains Container Jobs/SubSchedules is clicked and Update Job statuses is selected, there should be an option to perpetuate the command through ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Create Frequency from Frequency Manager

Can we add the ability to create a new frequency from within Frequency Manager?
Suggested by: Hidden identity (02 Jul, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Solutions Manage: Self Service - Create buttons with SMADDI

Similar to OPC-I-351 (https://smartideas.ideas.aha.io/ideas/OPC-I-351) , it would be useful if there were a way to export or import buttons, in similar way we could ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (24 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Self Service Default Values

There is another idea out there that has this as part of it, but I wanted to split it off and make it its own. I think it would improve the process for the end users ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 May, '19) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
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Self Service - Display Global Variable

I have a button set up where an end user passes a check number to it. Once they submit, the value they typed gets passed to a global variable. There have been many ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 May, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Option to ignore invalid/self-signed certificate errors in SMALDAPMon SSL/TLS connections

This is exactly as it sounds - an option to ignore invalid/self-signed certificate errors in SMALDAPMon SSL/TLS connections. This would be very useful and resolve an ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Apr, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Customized Size Option for Solution Manager Debug Logs

When debug is turned on for Solution Manager it creates huge logs. The api and dependencies logs that are generated can easily reach multiple gigabytes in size. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Expression, Global and Instance Property resolution "preview"

It would be very handy to be able to see the value of a global property when hovering over it in various windows. For example, recently, I was building a cmd job and ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (25 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Web UI

Solution Manager Console - API Calls

A console to submit events is a nice addition. It would be even better if we could submit API calls from the console. Especially if we could test the command and get ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Web UI

LDAP or Active directory sync with nesting AD group

We use LdapMon to sync a active directory group with a role in Opcon. Actually the active directory can contain only Users. I wish I could add existing Active ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (25 Feb, '19) Upvoted: 27 Dec, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Global property usable as job event value

It would be useful if we could use global properties as the value iin the job event definition. For example, if we had a job configured to mark itself, and a number ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (22 Jan, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Rights for Global Properties

Currently there is just the option to grant rights to ALL global properties, but not to selected once. This does cause issues as I cannot allow users or events (which ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (29 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 07 Apr, '22 Comments: 0
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Named Instance : Predecessor dependencies with named instance

In the case of a design that works with a normal schedule and predecessor named instance schedule, the named instance predecessor MUST BE fill in the normal ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (16 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Audit history for Service Request changes

I just realized today that there is no auditing available if someone makes a change to a Service Request button. With OpCon Deploy you would have the ability to see ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Improve Escalation to support Text, Events, and CMD

Escalation currently only supports Emails. This greatly limits usability because it is tied to one address in the User Account. To Support Text, and third party ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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IBM i LSAM SCANSPLF needs relative line position function

The IBM i LSAM SCANSPLF utility can perform relative positioning within a single line, either positive or negative from the identified Label value. But it lacks a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (06 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined IBM i Agent

Make Date Collapsable in Solution Manager Processes View

When working on my mobile phone in the Processes view, it is almost impossible to search for a schedule because the Date section's minimum width still takes up half ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Secure a user's default password

We have data center clients who have started using Solution Manager and Self Service. During the setup of their users, the automated temp passwords were emailed to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (25 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Generate perldoc like doc from opcon database

Hello, Sometime schedule are really complicated. It could be nice if we could generate a doc from database : From top schedule, list jobs. For each jobs, show ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Update MCP message monitoring to determine what program displayed the message.

Initial Request: I have four different databases running four different copies of the same program. They each have a unique program name. I want to initiate a job ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jul, '22 Comments: 0
Declined MCP Agent

Provide a test capability when defining a Remote Instance host

When defining a Remote Instance host definition it would be beneficial to have a test button to verify the connection details are correct. At present you have to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

SMASmartEmail Installation Enhancement - Userid Password confusion

From: Mike Grieco Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 4:20 PM To: William Pool Subject: smasmartemail 18.1 Hi William I think we spoke to this before, but why doesn't the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Authentication for SMTP connection in Hung Scripts

Improve hung scripts to allow an authenticated smtp connection (as Notify handler does). sendemail.exe is able to use authentication, but our scripts don't allow it. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (08 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Embedded Scripts Comparison tool

It would be very useful to have a side-by-side file comparison tool for files stored in the Embedded Script Repository.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (06 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Self Service, job Completed with error - more information

When looking at the execution history of a Button in Self Service, it is hard to clear error messages for Administrators in an effort to solve the issue. Right now we ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (23 May, '18) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
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Improve Delete Old Schedules Feature to Cancel jobs

A common problem is that there are schedules that never finish. (Jobs are built on hold and never released. Jobs have dependencies that are never satisfied.) This ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 May, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Different TLS certificate verification options then Certificate Serial Number

We get more and more Support calls because of stoped LSAMs because of TLS certificates which expired. Normaly a expired certificate gets reassigned to a LSAM-Server ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (24 Apr, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Solution Manager - Maintenance Mode

On behalf of Ben Damaree (via email) : Outlink Datacenter is Jack Henry/Symitar's datacenter which runs processing for over 200 Credit Unions. They purchased a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (30 Jan, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Add second email to a user account for use in Escalation Manager

I'm starting to work a bit with Escalation Manager, and I'm finding myself having to create redundant user accounts for people, just to set up an additional contact ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (17 Jan, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Right click to reset a schedule as if it were a new schedule build

Sometimes when we are doing some testing and want to rerun a schedule for a day, we have cancel any jobs not completed, delete the schedule, go to schedule build and ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Dec, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Resource Monitor UI

Are there any plans for a facelift of the Windows Resource Manager UI? It looks and feels old IMHO. Creating and editing Action Groups is clumsy, especially after the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (16 Nov, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Allow SQL Agent jobs to access the Script Repository

When setting up SQL Agent jobs we can define a SQL Script to be run. This is doing so against a local file on the SQL Agent server as far as I can tell. It would be a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (06 Oct, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Provide Reset Password for Event Password

Using the "Password Update" option in the drop-down menu from keyword "EnterpriseManager" in the main EM window, there are two options: One for the User Password and ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (18 Aug, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Allow Global Properties to be used in text descriptions of Self Service buttons

It would be helpful if users who don't have access to EM, were still able to see what certain values of global properties were. For example, we have a program that ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Aug, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

SMArt Email - Update Parsing Parameters

Parsing emails with SMArt Email is awesome - but it's really complicated the way it currently works, with all of the SubjectLineMask, ProcessBody, ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Jul, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Recurring Instances even a run is failed

Recurring instances fixed by time is a powerful feature. At this time each run have to finish ok, otherwise the next planned run will not start. There should be an ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (30 Jan, '17) Upvoted: 18 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Set Permissions on Destination File for File Transfer

In regards to File Transfer functionality, the one improvement that is needed urgently is the ability to set permissions for the files transferred (things like read ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (04 Jan, '17) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

COMMVAULT connector

Opening this to record early investigation on the request. (Jose requested, Bertie/Jerome M. evaluating) Jose - "We have sold OpCon to a customer called ALPTIS in ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (23 Dec, '16) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Change SMA Parse File .Rule file to allow for standard user and password encryption

Currently the .rule file only accepts unencrypted user/password combinations. It would be nice to either be able to use encrypted values in the .rule file...or, just ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (28 Nov, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Include recurring Job info in Job Matrix

Bernadette submitted this on behalf of Butch: Butch would like to have "a status screen that shows what the schedule is of jobs and when they are due to start by the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (23 Sep, '16) Upvoted: 18 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Put helpfull comments on an complex Expression dependency

Expression dependencies are very powerfull. But it's hard for operator to understand this complex syntax. It sould be helpfull to be able to add a comment directly ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Sep, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Maintenance In Progress in the Solution Manager

Hi, If a customer has a maintenance (or for the opcon upgrade) to do on the Opcon Server, it will be fine if a user try to connect to the SM to get a page ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (04 Aug, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Display the resolved command line at request (especially when made of a lot of properties)

Based on customers request (Vert baudet, ....) illustrated with what I am working on right now : When creating a command line like this one : [[SI.pg]] [[SI.c]] ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Jul, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Include SMAParse with the Windows Agent installation and document

SMAParseFile is a utility that the TAMs use at almost every site. Josh references it every time he does an OpCon or Self Service demo :). We should include this ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (21 Jun, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Icon Library for Self Serivce Buttons

D474: As a Self Service administrator, in addition to the Custom HTML, I would like Self Service to have a built-in library of icons I could place on my buttons. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

secure all our defined properties and data

D454: For a few months, we have shared our production environment with another department. We have a production and test environment and since a few months we are not ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Rebuild Daily Job In maintenance right click menu: Rebuild "Daily same as Master"

D396: The idea is to get in one click the ability the rematch the job 'daily' same as 'master'. It could be useful when doing some test, changing a first parameter, ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon