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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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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Notice link on ITNCM login page

A link required on ITNCM login page, where administrator can add messages on backend like ITNCM outage timings, client Java requirements etc.
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Grouping multiple job streams during submit

Hi I've some across the requirement to submit a set of job streams (group) while maintaining the correct external follows dependencies. When doing this manually, this means that it should be done with great caution and in a correct order. What we ...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

REST URI to return diff of 2 configurations

Require new NSM REST URI that can return native diff and modeled diff of 2 configurations 1. Need new URI that returns differences in 2 native configurations E.g. nsm/configuration/nativediff/{config-id1}/{config-id2} 2. Need new URI that returns ...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Ability to export DBACCESS.SH query results to CSV file

Requesting ability to export /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/ncm/01/bin/utils/support/dbaccess.sh query results to CSV file
about 8 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Scheduling a Report from the DWC directly

TDWC Reports should have a button to schedule/automate the report into a job and stream (open new windows to add details of job name, stream name and schedule/rc)
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Unusable ordered list of Job within the DWC Monitor Jobs table view

Defining a complex Job Streams with a clear sequence of Job execution and submitting it, you can easily monitor the Job sequence execution using the Job Stream graphical view in the Plan while the order is unpredictable and not usable if you refer...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

With Zcentric agent, use of jobtype 'web service' doesn't handle proxy configuration

This request is about Zcentric agent.When using jobtype 'web service', there is no way to specify parameters if web service is behind a proxy
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

allow job time dependency to be set relative to job stream input arrival to fix timezone DST issue

Allow job time dependencies to be set relative to the job stream input arrival time rather than from the Plan start time as it is currently. This is important for scheduling where the time zone of the workstation has different Daylight Savings tim...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Runcycle offset, extended math

Allow offsets of runcycles to be layered, as in recursive. Starting from a runcycle frequency statement or calendar, allow it to be nested inside offsets by day, weekdays, workdays, other runcycle frequencies or calendars. For example, to run on t...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration