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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?

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Need to create a resource that filter on name of server/workstation when creating dynamic pools

Today we can specify what servers we want in a dynamic pool by making a resourcegroup with those servers. In case your naming standards for servers are setup you should be able to make a logic resource specifying servers in a pool depending on the...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

Nokia 7342 command set SFTP support

Nokia 7342 driver has to support SFTP for file transfer to remote server.
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

add feature so that jobs in USERJOBS can trigger events for total duration

There is a significant portion of jobs that get placed into USERJOBS that are hung. We need a way to trigger events for total duration of the job, such as at 24h duration, or 72h duration. Currently there are 2 limitations in TWS that are preventi...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Configuring multiple devices using IDT

Network Operation Team currently configure multiple devices using scripts that use direct CLI connections to the devices.Weneed to modify these scripts to use IDT connections to the devices. However IDT can only connect to one device at a time. We...
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Application and Event monitoring statefulset operators

The community around the operator pattern and the community framework has gained a lot of traction and has matured quite a bit from its original proposal and delivery. There are increasingly more examples of technologies adopting this pattern (htt...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Operator pattern based deployment lifecycle management for the Application and Event monitoring workload

Refactor the ibm-cloud-appmgmt-prod helm chart to be replaced by a go-sdk operator for controlling the deployment lifecycle, administrative and operation tasks of the IBM Cloud App Management workload. Note: Not to be confused with using a helm-ty...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Vertical scaling of Application and Event monitoring stateful services

A means by which to effectively perform vertical scaling of key stateful services in the `ibm-cloud-appmgmt-prod` chart. Today, the stateful services include PersistentVolumeClaims in their pod spec, and use helm values to configure the size of th...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Placement Rules

Allow for additional inputs into the placement rules. For example: cost of resources within a cluster, network latency of a cluster (ex: edge vs central cloud), networking capacity between locations, cluster hardware capabilities (CPU pinning, GPU...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced Visibility of Deployed Application Versions.

Update the topology, application, and/or overview screens in MCM to more effectively see what release(s) of applications are deployed to which clusters. These views should be consumable even when there are 100s of clusters and support grouping by ...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

More control for application updates at scale

When doing an application update (such as from v1.0 to v1.1) for multiple Deployables each deployed in their own cluster, the customer needs more control over how those upgrades are performed. The ability to do a canary deployment (upgrade just on...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration