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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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Hide SQL commands or SQL returned when running a Database job type in 9.4 Web Console

When setting up and running a database job type in 9.4 Web Console, in the job log information it displays the SQL that was returned from running the database job. It would be helpful to be able to choose if you would like this information to be h...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Extracting user list from DWC

Why is it useful? 1. It is useful for the purpose of timely review conducted by every client to have a clear picture of what users have access to application and what is the type of access. 2. It simplifies the review for auditors as well for inte...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Message bus Probe R15 should support multiple (active/standby) JMS instance

Dear IBMTeam, In our existing integration we have connected to Nokia-SDWAN-JMS1 using (tcp://IP1:PortNumber). We used this information in the respective properties files to connect to Nokia-SDWAN-JMS1. Now the requirement is Nokia Team added a new...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

IWA - set OS priority for a job

Provide a new job definition keyword to specify an OS level priority. When the job is started, IWA will "nice" the process to the specified level (low, med, high maybe). This would be different than the current IWA priority, which only affects the...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Filters in IWS output collector

Our IWS environment include both PROD and TEST jobs in the same controller but now a new "requirement" has arised to the the output collector that collect the distributed joblogs and transferred them to the mainframe. Today, when installing the IW...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow variable tables to be specified in a hierarchy

The limit of one, and only one, variable table to be specified limits reusability. It leads to redundancy and inhibits efforts to apply DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles. This raises both development and maintenance cost.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Dismantle Related Event Grouping with lesser children

Any property or configuration that we can use to "Restrict Related Event Grouping, Parent Synthetic Alarm " not to create Group if it has lesser number of children's ( typically 1 or 2) same as SEG minimumchildren property.
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Netact SNMP trap retransmission

Netact Corba interface ramp-down is planned for NetAct 22 FP2201, which is the first feature package in 2022 Jan. Requirement is to have a probe, capable of requesting SNMP trap retransmission. SNMP alarm upload: http://cudovm01.netact.nsn-rdnet.n...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

SAP jobs been deleted doesn't have any control from scheduling tool

SAP Jobs being constantly deleted or manually released by the end-user, causing the job in TWS side to loose its reference with the SAP job and failing, impacting the business. We'd like to have a solution developed and embedded in TWS to either s...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Load Balancing function additions

Add the capability to use the Load Balancing Discovery function with exclusions and Remote Anchor.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration