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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 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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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

Ability to programmatically change rptuser password and insert into users' DWC configurations

I support high-security policies by programmatically generating passwords for accounts used by IWS and making corresponding changes on the IWS side (like with changePassword.sh), without human intervention. The exception is the rptuser account use...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Able to filter alarms by major and minor and search alarms using identifier in service diagnosis anomaly search

The Customer wants a facility in service diagnosis anomaly search where they can search using major and minor alarms and search using anomaly identifier.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

TNPM. Cisco Device Tech pack to discover virtual interfaces for MPLS devices when physical and virual interface have same ifName

Cisco Device Tech pack cannot discover virtual interfaces for MPLS Cisco devices. Because of that it is not possible to monitor any KPI for these interfaces. This means it is not possible to monitor even MIB II KPIs for these virtual interfaces, a...
about 12 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 4 Not under consideration

Predictive Insights: Export or copy option from Service Diagnosis Anomaly Search page

Provide an option to either export (to CSV) or copy (to clipboard) results displayed in the search results table on the Service Diagnosis Anomaly Search page.Currently the only method available to copy search results from the table involve using a...
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under 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

cfgeezdmn requires IBM.AgFilesystem: make this an option

When configuring high availability for the automation manager the automation policy always contains IBM.AgFilesystem resources (e.g. for the application manager policy pool or agentless adapter policy pool). However, shared filesystems is not alwa...
about 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

F5 device problem

Hi,We have discovered F5 devices in our infrastructure and now we are attempting to poll and store value of an OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.2.10.2.3.1.12). After polling and storing the data, when we query the historical data - the 'Instance' field is ...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under 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