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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?
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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TDWC Dashboard Option to Ignore Workstation Offline Alert

in the dashboard for TDWC, anytime a workstation goes offline, a notification is flashed. Asking for an option to ignore a workstation if it goes offline for times when there may be scheduled maintenance or maybe an lpar is shutdown without notifi...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Use a variable table associated to a jobsstream workstation when the jobs workstation is different

I want to use a variable table associated to a jobsstream workstation when the jobs workstation is different from Jobsstream workstation.I want to use both variable tables.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Matching LocalNodeAlias and Node to process OMNIbus events in ITNM

I have events that arrive from different managers to OMNIbus and are associated with discovered devices, just because they match in the IP that is in LocalNodeAlias
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

IBM Workload Scheduler integration with ElasticSearch (ELK) for logging

The customer CaixaBank is using IBM Workload Scheduler for Distributed to schedule in several systems. There is also an ongoing project of centralize all logs, from all those systems into a central ElasticSearch repository. It provides benefits li...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

TWS is very sensitive to the point that even a small increase in SAN disk I/O wait, delays job execution

Constant read/write of data by TWS into .msg queues makes TWS very sensitive, even a small increase of 8-10 msecs in disk I/O wait time starts queueing up messages in Intercom.msg and eventually delaying job execution.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support extended characters in user name of IBM Workload Scheduler product

Government of Alberta User Name standards include a dot "." in the user name. IWS Installer limits the User name can contain alphanumeric, dash (-), and underscore (_) characters. Requesting extension of this limitation to include other extended c...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhancement in show differences function

User wants an option in show differences function to see only configuration which is different, other common configuration items should not be displayed.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

NOT ASSESSED evaluation should show the XPATH on Results screen

NOT ASSESSED evaluation should show the XPATH on the right side of the Results screen
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Compliance Edit Definition must show all the evaluations

Compliance Edit Definition must show all the xpath evaluations in order to delete the unwanted evaluations, which is not possible from GC template.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Compliance scripting helper - getXpathConfig

Requesting a new Compliance Scripting helper 'String getXpathConfig(String xpath)' that returns configuration under a given xpath from modeled config.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration