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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Oracle E-Business plug-in - Wait for child requests

Customers use the Oracle E-business plug-in to manage individual Concurrent Manager requests as IWS jobs. Those request may submit one or more child requests to Oracle Concurrent Manager. The IWS Oracle E-Business plug-in does not currently provid...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

IDT should remember all characters typed at prompt to trigger

IDT is failing to buffer/remember all the characters typed at device prompt
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

ALU OLT driver enahncement for incremental backup

Incremental sync support required. Like sync only one of the following items in each UOW.Thus we neither need UOW pre-emption and we will sync the complete OLT configuration(including future items) within few hours. Current backup items:rtrv-servi...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Additional Match Criteria for Command Filter

Requesting additional Match Criteria like 'Starts with' in Command Filter
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Fetch Info-Model-Os-Configuration from one file

RAD script should be able to parse and fetch Info, Model, Os, Configuration from one input file for file based imports. Require support of FIND-BEGIN/FIND-END logic for this parse and fetch. RFE recommended by Steven Shuman.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

ALU TL1 drivers.log enhancement

For Alcatel/PON/OLTS-L/*4x.* avoid character based logging in drivers.log and capture the device interactions in string format. Also it is weird that non-error commands or output captured at ERROR log level. IBM L3 Steven Shuman aware of the issue
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Notice link on ITNCM login page

A link required on ITNCM login page, where administrator can add messages on backend like ITNCM outage timings, client Java requirements etc.
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Grouping multiple job streams during submit

Hi I've some across the requirement to submit a set of job streams (group) while maintaining the correct external follows dependencies. When doing this manually, this means that it should be done with great caution and in a correct order. What we ...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

REST URI to return diff of 2 configurations

Require new NSM REST URI that can return native diff and modeled diff of 2 configurations 1. Need new URI that returns differences in 2 native configurations E.g. nsm/configuration/nativediff/{config-id1}/{config-id2} 2. Need new URI that returns ...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Ability to export DBACCESS.SH query results to CSV file

Requesting ability to export /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/ncm/01/bin/utils/support/dbaccess.sh query results to CSV file
about 8 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration