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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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Blacklist servers in Dynamic Pool

If we have problems with an execution server during our production day, how do we stop/blacklist this server in the pool. It is crucial for us that this can be done automatic. Our production day starts at 18:00CET with the majority of jobs startin...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

it should be possible to set "JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK" on/off on serers/agents

APAR IV69547 has been created to update the dynamic agent. The flag (JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK) will be added into TaskLauncher so that it will be inherited by jobs running on Dynamic agents too.This should be made as an optional setting (loca...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

ITNM 3.9 - Poller not clearing events

If a device gets a new IP the old event is never cleared automatically as there is no current correlation for the events based on the device itself. After the discovery sets the device with the new IP that changed during the night, the polling sho...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 5 Not under consideration

Adding solution manager diagnostics - SMD to allow automation

Add solution manager diagnostics - SMD to SAP build wizard for automation
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Improvements for "Manual Mode" in UI

Today, there is just a small information field in the domain detail which shows you if a TSAMP domain is set in manual mode or automation mode. With the requested enhancemants you should 1. see, e.g. by a small icon, that domain is in manual mode2...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Silent Installation/Migration method as alternative to installSAM

If you install or update TSAMP today, you do this via installSAM. installSAM not just installs packages, it also sets configs based on the current system configuration, e.g. set java path.If you want to automate the installation, e.g. to perform i...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Search function and multiple selection for Nodes

With the new UI multiple selection for resources is available. For nodes it's currently not provided. The "node view" should be enhanced by this function for nodes, so you can select several nodes and e.g. exclude them all by 1 click.
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Loader (And Gateway) elasticity to deal with increased in data volume

TNPM. Currently Loaders (and Gateways) can deal with data backlog though backup instances that have been pre-configured. This request is to have Loader (And Gateway) elasticity to automatically and dynamically deal with unexpected increases or bac...
over 11 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 3 Not under consideration

Up-issuing a Definition should automatically up-issue any Rule and/or Policy which calls it

ITNCM Compliance manager has a feature whereby once you "activate" a Policy, Rule, or Definition - the version number of that Policy, Rule or Definition is automatically incremented whenever it is edited. It is normal to have each Policy call one ...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

For AAA SmartModel in ITNCM-Base not matching SmartModel in ITNCM-Compliance.

aaa authorization commands 15 default group tacacs+ appears to be modelled in the driver but when using the "create a new definition" wizard only the following is available aaa authorization commands 15 similarly aaa accounting network default sta...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration