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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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To have a easy way to know which targets in scope were unreachable during the discovery

In our environment we usually run discoveries on big scopes. It could happen that some targets included in the scope were unreachable through ping. We are looking for a simple way to have a list of scoped targets, for each of them having the simpl...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Critical Path DCP

Provide a parameter to desensitize the triggering of EQQP23I Potential Risk Alert Current functionality: Potential risk alerts trigger when a job on the critical network is late, or on abend even if the critical jobs deadline time is many hours in...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters.

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters. Due to the above limitation the fi...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Plugin for MSSQL Jobs - add the possibility to restart from step

The request is to add an optional parameter "step" in the MSSQL job. When such a parameter is set the job is launched (or re-launched) not from the beginning but from the specified step.The step could be specified either by its numeric id, or by n...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Netcool Impact UI Data Provider is unable to capture client details, such as ip address, user that connected and other useful

As advised in case TS003414395, it is not possible to capture the details of a client connecting to the Netcool Impact UI Data Provider. Please see the case for further details.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Topology, Runbooks and CNEA Databases in Hybrid DR setup should be replicated automatically

Currently Automatic Data Replication is only supported in Full Cloud statck Deployment of Event Manager in Watson AIOPS, but In Hybrid Implementation still requires manual effort to back and restore process to sync two Clusters. Since fundamentall...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

The ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page so it propagates to all the graphs – like the limited default selections do now.

Ability to view data within a specific scope.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

The ability to download a list of group members and a 'download page' option so that all data is easily exportable

This will be useful for the client when needing to export data for other members in the organization to view.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release