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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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NPI requires support for floating point poll data

Support the ability for the poller to store values in floating point.
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Add TADDM Ability to try both RSA and DSA keys for SSH logins when both private keys are available on the Discovery Server

The current TADDM behavior during discovery of servers through SSH keys is to attempt to login only with one key (RSA or DSA). If both key exists, only RSA key is used. The enhancement request is to have TADDM try both the RSA and DSA keys during ...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Delivered

Allow users to set their own default columns per object type

For the DWC user interface, under "System Configuration" > "Set User Preferences" users should be able to set their own default column set for how they want to see result lists for each object type. This user-default set of columns would be use...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

Update the twsinst script that comes with fixpack 9.4 so that either the temporary directory is not hardcoded as /tmp

Please update the twsinst script that comes with the fixpack install so that the TWA_TEMP variable is either an option or points to the /tmp instead of /tmp. Filling the temp file system has an impact on other applications on the server and not ju...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

maxdur "event" should write an event to BmEvents.conf log file

While we like the new 9.3 feature of MAXDUR, we want to be able to alert when it hits. With only options of kill or continue, it forces an abend, but that will mislead folks to think the job abended versus got killed. We would like to see a new ev...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Path tool option to perform DB trace

When running the path tool within ITNM, it always performs a live trace of the routing data by querying specific OIDs via SNMP. As those OIDs might not all be available on certain devices, it would be a nice feature if the path could be determined...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

Support hexstring datatype in ITNM event poll definitions or advanced polling

ITNM generic polls need to be able to report the values for common snmp datatypes, such as (especially) Hex-STRING. Today it seems that we can only specify text, int, and time in advanced polling or poll event description; OIDs with octet string d...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Add Job Duration to DWC Workload Monitoring

Duration of jobs for z/os is not listed on DWC but is available on the regual z/os panels.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) for z/OS Basics

Our team installed the DWC when upgrading to IWS 9.3 We are disappointed in the usability of this GUI.It's too basic.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Include date/time on 251 events (unlink) to help in troubleshooting

We use/review TWS unlink events in our troubleshooting and can't tell when one happens as it isn't time stamped like other events.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered