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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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Navigate with context to Events window.

from AP dashboards allow navigation directly to events with event.application/service/endpoint.name populated.
almost 4 years ago in Instana 4 Not under consideration

'Schedule Report' option on reports to email the report adhoc or on schedule

On Reports have an option to send the report (history or sql) as an email. It sends it once or schedules it as job to run as required (weekly etc). Similar to how we use the Batchcli feature, but DWC does it all for you from a few clicks.
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support multiple PIDs on IP:Port

TADDM needs to be create unique dependencies between App Servers, even when they share the same IPAddress:PortNumber. Many AppServer types, especially DBs and Application Servers will share IPAddress:PortNumbers on a Computer System. This will cau...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

DWC View Efficiencies

There are multiple DWC queries required for my Operations team to use each shift. We recently migrated to Workload Automation 9.5 and find it inefficient to manually run each query at the top of every shift (e.g.: All Workstations in plan, All Job...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

Support of IMS and STP Inventory/Topology Discovery is required in ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K

ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K designed for PSCORE and CSCORE does not discover IMS (IP Multimedia) and STP (Signalling) Inventory/Topology . Enhancement of Collector is required to support same. Note: HuaweiM2K collector works on XML files received fro...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Separate PATH and user id for ASD DB2 Discovery

Currently the ASD scripts for DB2 uses db2inst id for discovery. the script paths are derived from the home directory of db2inst user id (db2 installation path) we need to seperate the user id used for discovery to something other than the db2 ins...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

APM agent for MQ Appliance should monitor Hardware too

We are using massively MQ Appliance but the last version of agent is not complete because it doesn't show information about MQ Appliance Hardware
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 3 Not under consideration

Juniper's modules not supported

kindly we need your support to apply these modules for the juniper vendor as we have a lot of devices for these modules at our network that we want to cover, and the modules as shown below:ex4500-40fm320t4000m10iex4200-24tm7iex3200-24tex4200-48tex...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

Core Huawei's modules not supported

kindly we need your support to apply these modules for the huawei vendor as we have a lot of devices for these modules at our network that we want to cover, and the modules as shown below:NetEngine 8000 M8NE9000S9303 TerabitNetEngine 8000 M14
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

Brocade's modules not supported

kindly we need your support to apply these modules for the Brocade vendor as we have a lot of devices for these modules at our network that we want to cover, and the modules as shown below: NetIron CES
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration