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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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Add integrated links/info for far-end interface in out-of-the-box report

SevOne already understands the 2 device/interface mappings for a given link. WHen looking at a given interface, a link towards far-end interface should be provided in out-of-the-box report (ex: Network Device Summary, Interface Object Summary, etc.)
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

ScopeID and Policy information on Alerts detail

Customer wants to have more datail about how alerts are grouped and what policy was used for that. This help to improve policies and it's configurations, and a better understanding when they are troubleshooting incidents.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Make "In Error Predecessors" column clickable/to drill through the jobs via Monitor Critical Jobs in Dynamic Workload Console

Monitor Critical Jobs in DWC just shows the number of abend predecessor jobs in "In Error Predecessors" column. It will be better if the column is made clickable similar to "Not Completed Predecessors" so the errored predecessor jobs can be viewed...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

AWS discovery sensor to support AWS temporary credentials, not just long term credentials

There are 2 types of credentials available when accessing AWS' public URL - temporary, and long term. My organisation, in consultation with AWS, have implemented an AWS security policy that only allows the use of temporary access credentials.Since...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

IWS/IWA Filewatch JOBStream improvment

The client is using the Filewatch capabilities to manage input files coming from external partners/clients. During a normal day they need to manage the following situations: - No file received - a single file received - Multiple file received They...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add ability to set std_table_dot_walk parameter in servicenow-observer job UI

When discovering resources using the servicenow-observer for large CI tables an error is flagged up regarding pagination and suggestion in the manual is to set std_table_dot_walk=false via swagger. Now the manual is pretty poor when it comes to ho...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Per job E2E accounting from mainframe should be possible without DB2

To support and offer better solutions to our customers we would like to use the "per job accounting" from the mainframe without having the DB2 history database installed. Some of our mainframe customers have several servers installed and could be ...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add ICMP and SNMP polling to Netdisco Observers

When ASM/Topology Manager is able to discover network and device structures via its Network Discovery Observers, why shouldn't it use this knowledge for performing healthcheck via ICMP and SNMP on this devices as well?
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

sshd and security ciphers that are no longer recommended by the industry

Within SSHD.conf there are older unsupported security ciphers that the industry has recommended to be mitigated. (This was found during a network security scan) Below is an export from SSHD.conf in its original file. # Limit the Ciphers and MACs t...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release