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Notifications from Notification Manager based on specific exit code

D402: It would be useful if notifications in notification manager be set up to be sent based on specific exit codes. What we're trying to do is send a specific ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Audit Management data should automatically be exported with parameters (Users and Audit Categories)

D385: We would like to be able to export the Audit Management data automatically in a CSV format to a windows share on the OpCon server. We have log gathering ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

I need a function privilege to just view global properties.

D383: The only privilege setting for global properties is to maintain them. If a role doesn't have access to modify a global property, then they can't even see it at all.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Schedule/Job Name Text Color - Conditional Formatting

D376: Would it be possible to configure the EM to display schedule and job names in a red text when "autobuild" is unchecked on the schedule or if "Disable Build" is ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Enhance Daily Maintenance and Check circular dependencies

D371: We use the Check circular dependencies every day as a daily routine to find jobs that is not on the schedule but should be. We see 2 features that can be added ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Job Progress Meter

D367: We would like to see some sort of progress meter when running RSJ jobs. Currently the job will sometimes report back the Episys job it is running or a PID. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Disable Force Start at Job Level

D296: Would it be possible to develop an option to disable the Force Start choice at the job level? The administrator would be the only user that would have access to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Display order and control for Instance Definitions

D276: As a customer who uses predefined instances, I would like the ability to change the order of the instances so that I can be sure I've define all the proper ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Embedded Versionning Repository support in Enterprise Manager

D261: To allow Opcon teams to centralize scripts in a versionning repository, Enterprise Manager should embed a versionning tool (Eclipse does it ;-) With such a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Auto Populate Email - Notification Definitions

D248: It would be a great idea to be able to auto populate email addresses in the Notification denfinition screen from historic entry in the field, or from an outlook ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

edit the daily job during the addition

D224: about adding to DAILY please add the the possibility, with a flag in the "Daily Maintenance" and "add job" menu, to edit the daily job during the addition(to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Auto update list and matrix view to current day for dashboard style view "Monitoring View"

D174: When I have the list view, bar chart open and possibly other views displayed on a big screen tv for daily monitoring of processes, the scheduled day does not ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Can we create a privilege to only view Calendars and Schedule Master Details?

D162: Customer would like operators to See the description of a schedule, ie see its parameters: start time, workdays by week, additional holidays, use master ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Schedule Operations-Sort by schedule run time

D159: Customer would like a way to sort the operations views by order of run time.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Machines privileges

D160: One of our customer (ARSOE) ask us if it is possible to modify the Machines Status view, so that an Opcon user could only see the machines on which he has ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

New Report for Jobs not Associated with Notification Triggers

D121: As an OpCon/xps user, I'd like to run a report that shows me a list of jobs that are not associated with any Notification triggers. Acceptance Criteria: ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

File Watching jobs - can we have Modify and Delete options?

D492: (This idea is posted on behalf of a partner - please let us know what you think!) The new File Arrival job is easy to use, and we do like it. We would also ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback 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

SMALDAPMon - allow manual users to be added

So this week I found that if you use SMALDAPMon, you cannot create any of your own users inside of EM - they will get disabled and removed from their role. The ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (31 Mar, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

User ID List Filter

Sometimes, customers have a lot of UserID defined in the Batch Users (In particular for Unix). For example, we can have 100 UserID defined. When I create a job, we ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (23 Feb, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Phone Calls Alert and Restart Without Notification

Just following up from our discussion about notification escalation - We would love it if we had a way to send phone call alerts as well as an option to restart a job ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

SMArt Email - Download Attachments

A couple of ideas with how we're currently processing Email Attachements. The download attachments option is awesome. Here's how it can improve. * instead of ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

File Watcher 1 to many as opposed to current 1 to 1

Currently we use Resource Monitor (RM) to monitor a directory for a range of file to be delivered. Examples are ACH, some institutions receive between 4-8 files a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

General SMAResourceMonitorUI Update

So... has anyone used SMARM's UI in the last 5 years? It's not exactly user friendly. It's way overdue for a general overhaul - simple things would make a huge ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

LDAP integration and AD passwords

This topic is branched off the original topic for "LDAP Monitor - assigning access to multiple groups based on their role" (OP-I-13). This one was from Guam Dinh: ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Filter Select Schedule drop-downs by master or sub schedule

Hey Team, I'm out working with OTS this week and they brought up an interesting point. It would be awesome to be able to filter any of the schedule drop downs by ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Job Output Parsing - Collect Data

We need a way to automatically retrieve data from a Job's Output based on a regular expression defined. This is achievable in OpCon today using multiple Jobs. 1.) ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (04 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 17 Aug, '22 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Add "Self Service License" into Users and Privileges report

And/or create a new report specifically to show who has a self service license.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Declined OpCon

Warning limit reached agent on Netcom process

Is it possible to have a sql query warning when the Netcom process reaching the threshold of 800 agents ? We need that tool to anticipate the creation of a new ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Declined OpCon

Hide the Vision Button in Solution Manager, if no Vision license exists!

Or add an extra flag to hide the Button. By now if you have "All Administrative Functions" or "All Administrative Functions" the Vision Button is Visible even if you ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (17 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Declined OpCon

View Global Property date/time values

Similar to how you can view the values of regular global properties using Ctrl + T in Enterprise Manager, it would be helpful if we could view "calculated" ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (22 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Declined OpCon

Add an IfError Function to the OpCon Expression API

I would like the Expression API to be updated to include an "IfError" function. Ideally, this would have 3 parameters: 1. The Expression to be evaluated 2. What to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
Collecting community feedback Automation Brick OpCon

Enhance LDAP Monitor to allow a user to belong to multiple AD groups

Currently the LDAP Monitor can be configured to sync multiple AD groups to OpCon Roles but the issue occurs when the same user is in multiple AD groups. When this ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 Dec, '20) Upvoted: 27 Dec, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Security

Named multi-instance schedule: Adding Job Pattern Exceptions

Hi, In the EM, a user can't add job pattern exceptions in the named multi-instance schedule if he's not in the ocadm role. Can we have a new privilege for this ? ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (02 Jul, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Default to NOT Create Cross-Schedule Dependency (Copying Jobs)

By default when copying a job from one schedule into another schedule OpCon creates a cross-schedule dependency. It become extremely time consuming to remove those ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 12 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

SMA Solution: put red color on the schedule if a job is in error

Hy. In SMA Solution, when a job is in error, the status of the chain is "in progress with error (s)", but remains blue. Can we put the schedule in red color, as it ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 12 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

SMA Solution Manager - on system i, Job "MSGW" state is incorrect

Hy. When a job running on system i is in the "MSGW" state, SMA Solution Manager always displays it as "Job Running". Which for me is incorrect, and does not ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Jun, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Missing setup.exe from OpCon Version 19.1.3

I upgraded a client today (5/11/2020) and when he opened the _EXE folder he asked me "where is the setup.exe file?"
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 May, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Declined OpCon

Install Resource Monitor in multiple instances on one server

Hi Team, As you see in Case SMA-00081127 ther is the need to be able to install Resource Monitor in multiple instances on one server, just like the MSLSAM is ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Mar, '20) Upvoted: 05 May, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Login Security message BEFORE login

Currently, the login security message appears after the user logs in. However, if the EM (or the opcon server itself) to which the user is connecting is unavailable, ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (20 Feb, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Application Repository/Definition

Since all of the "Script Runners" I have setup are for applications, I think it would make sense to rename this and be able to use the runners on jobs (outside of ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (29 Jan, '20) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Impex Embeded Script

During an impex from an environment to an other we lose the script in the job definition. The script is in the repository on environment 1 and 2, they have the same ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Jan, '20) Upvoted: 19 May, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Audit management enhancements

Currently you cannot see Vision, Self Service or Script changes in the Audit Management area of Enterprise Manager. These options should be added especially since ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 03 Aug, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Start Time in Matrix for Recurring Jobs.

When customers have reoccurring jobs, the start time that shows in the Matrix view is the times of the last run and not the upcoming run. The Matrix should show the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (30 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Change "Not Responding" to "Disabled" When Machines are Disabled

Currently in Enterprise Manager, when a machine and LSAM is not communicating it displays as "Not Responding" typically in red. However, when a machine is manually ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (20 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

RestAPI Header Token using SSO

We would like the ability to retrieve a User token for subsequent RestAPI calls without supplying a username and password, instead using Kerberos authentication. The ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Icon Change

This is more of a simple change/suggestion. In Solution Manager, When I'm in any screen, the Icon next to the page title (the hamburger icon) confuses me. It's ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (21 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Add File Arrival Option to File Arrival Job

Currently in OpCon, the FileArrival job fails if no file is found. Instead if we can add 3 options to pick from, it would give users more flexibility. 1. Add a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (09 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Tokens in Schedule or Job Names

We want to be able to use a Token as part of our Schedule or Job names. This would allow us to make mass changes to Schedule or Job Names by simply changing one ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon

Add ability to call embedded scripts inside an embedded script

We need the ability to reference one embedded script within another embedded script. This would allow us to create centralized functions which can be called by each ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Jul, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon