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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
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Switch Domain in Domain Page View

Today you can switch to another a domain, if you are in the "Explore Automation Domains" view. With the new enhancement you can change the domain in this page.
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Export Topology Maps to Visio

The client would like the ability to export Topology Network Views to Visio as current functionality via SVG or PNG does not provide enough detail.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

“Disable BDC Wait” for all jobs in one single global parameter in TWS configurations, instead of disabling it job by job

Today, we are not able to Disable BDC wait for all jobs at once. We should be able to do it in configuration that would affect all jobs globally. You can use the case below for reference TS002011039, as I was not able to add it to the correct fiel...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support changing plan in monitoring views

Operations and developers frequently want to compare and contrast a job or job stream between production days. Letting DWC users select the production plan directly from a monitoring view instead of dismissing the view and generating a new one fro...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Event Analytics - Option to define the pattern discovery timeframe

If groups/pattern timeframe can be set during discovery rather than post discovery via edit pattern option.
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

search functionality of a multi-paged device configuration

can we enable the functionality of searching a multi-paged device configuration in a single go which is currently unvailable
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

MemberInProblemState only, if problem still exists

See PMR 19120,033,724 Today TSAMP sometimes shows Resource Groups with state "MemberInProblemState" even if all Members are online.This is caused by a resource, that was in a stuckOnline state after issues with reset, however this is hidden from t...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

compliance - hide View Native Config and View Modelled config

We need to be able to create user account(s) with minimal permissions purely for Reporting access for a single Realm. We have been able to do this for Configuration Manager GUI by creating a security set which prevents the user from seeing the dev...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add a run cycle for an event rule

Having the equivalent of a run cycle in the job stream but for the event rules, which would allow an event to be available for instance from Monday through Friday
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Predictive Insights Oracle Support

We are not a DB2 shop. Would need support for Predictive Insights running on an Oracle back end
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Not under consideration