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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Support creating application yaml from already deployed app

When importing existing cluster or when apps are deployed outside MCM, add ability to create a simple application yaml so that the user can take advantage of MCM capabilities.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Make MAXDUR/MINDUR available in Job History as are latest start and DEADLINE already present

It is not possible to report on jobs that have exceeded their MAXDUR setting nor those that did not meet their MINDUR setting as this information is not recorded in the TWS database. This request is to include the amount of time the job exceeded t...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Improve performance login on IWS for z/OS

In order to allow to understand in detail the load induced by PIF jobs on the TWS consumption, we wish to be able to have an option to activate a detailed log of the CPU cost of each PIF. In addition, in order to quantify the quality of TSO users'...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Resynch Policies in Memory without Restart

We have experienced corruption in the [ /opt/IBM/tivoli/impact/etc/SERVER_policylist ] files between cluster nodes on several occations. In order to resolve this we have been forced to do the “createPolicyList.sh” or “rebuildPolicyList.sh” and bot...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Request a read-only role in Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, without delete/create permissions

We would like to request the addition of a read-only role (without delete/create permission) in IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, regardless of which user created them, but nothing else
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Not under consideration

PI adaptive model definations

Predictive Insights product is not able to deal with adaptive input stream
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 2 Not under consideration

TNPM 1.4.5 topology: how to specify 'file' for the UBA acquisition

Not able to add file option in URI path in the TNPM topology editor. By default/dropdown only sftp/ftp options are available. Some of the components (e.g. UBA) acquire their files from the local file system (either SAN mounted or LOCAL disks). The...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

TDWC to have ability to update more than one object simultaneoulsy e.g. like the TEXT EDIT function provided by TWS Webadmin

Horizont TWS webadmin has a text edit feature which allows multiple database objects to be edited at the same time. This may be multiple jobs, regardless of type or associated server. Likewise, multiple jobstreams regardless of the server the jobs...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Integration with data federation solutions (Spectrum/Noobaa) to more holistically manage and move stateful workloads

Client's are interested in data federation whenever app management/movement comes up. Would like to see a level of integration with both the IBM (Spectrum) and RH (https://www.noobaa.io/) capabilities to make movement of the associated app data se...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

WHP IBM workload scheduler needs to be adapted to use the new SAP BO API

The FTAs are FTA159UP_1 (PRD) and FTA012LT_1 (TEST) the error when we lunch this webi pubblication report is Cannot cast class com.businessobjects.sdk.plugin it seems that the IBM workload scheduler needs to be adapted to use the new SAP BO API th...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release