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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Add associated labels info to Topology Views Cluster Object Pop-out windows

We use labels alot to shape placement of workloads. The topology view provides a nice visualization of the workload. However, when one clicks on a cluster - you only get fields for Name, Namespace, ClusterIP, resource stuff and policy violations. ...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Netcool Omnibus support for passwords longer than 32 char

As part of expanded password complexity, the ObjectServer mid layer Sybase needs to be updated to support increased password lengths greater than 32 char. This will allow for stronger complexity and greater resistance to intrusion attempts.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Officially support iCAM agent playbooks on IBM Z platform using the Ansible Tower Automation using the underlying Ansible Engine Framework

Description:  following tasks can be created for iCAM playbooks for IBM z platform through the management node * Uninstall ICAM Agent * Install ICAM Agent (Copy the image from ansible host, untar it, install it) * Upgrade ICAM Agent  * App...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

rgmbrreq for concurrent resources

Today, it is not possible to create a request for a concurrent resource on a specific node. With the new function rgmbrreq should work for concurrent resources in the same way as rgmbrreq for fixed resources. see forum discussion: http://www.ibm.c...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

Officially support iCAM agent playbooks to AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.x

Based on discussions with Brenda Christopher and Keyuri Patel, the following iCAM playbooks exist and currently only officially support xLinux endpoints: Uninstall ICAM Agent Install ICAM Agent (Copy the image from ansible host, untar it, install ...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Reporting capability that can be scheduled on NPI

Looking for capability to generate report via scheduler on NPI on NetFlow, QoS and SNMP monitoring. Currently there is no way to auto generate report on scheduler and send it to multiple recipient on regular basis. TNCP already supports. This can ...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

NPI. QoS report capability (for specific device group)

Looking for capability to report QoS on specific device. (This is supported today in TNCP) Group devices on some QoS KPI like drop queue, discard queue and network utilization on qos policy (Future consideration). Capability to generate PDF report...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

SAMP - samadapter in non-root context

It would be a great security enhancement if the development would redesign the samadapter-process not to run in root-context anymore.It is generally awkward to open an IP-port with UID 0 due to the possible option of exploiting the process and gai...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

NCP_GIS configuration deleted after Fixpack installation

NCP_GIS (config.json) configuration is deleted and replaced with default one once fixpack is installed. Automatic configuration backup should handled by fixpack installation process.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Option to switch off tool tip (auto pop up information) in AM Dash

The automatic pop up of the tool tip window(s) in the AM views is extremely annoying, especially if operators work from homewith smaller displays i.e. on notebook computers. It always overlays just the expan button as wel as menus they want to sel...
almost 9 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration