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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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Add VMWare Cluster to TADDM Integration Plugin (for ServiceNow)

We require the TADDM Integration ServiceNow Plugin to be able to send VMWare Clustering CI and relationship data to the appropriate cmdb_ci_vmware_cluster table (and also associated VMWare cluster resource tables) in ServiceNow.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Ability to limit the about of old discovery data returned by healthcheck

Add ability to limit the about of old discovery data returned by healthcheck.
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Custom dashboards: Copy a dataset or filter from one widget to another

Background and context When creating a dashboard it's often useful to re-use datasets or filters between different widgets. If it's the same widget, the duplicate widget functionality can be used, but there is no way to re-use a dataset or filter ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Mobile Monitoring: Filter out network errors by default so mean latency is correct

Background and context The mean latency information in mobile monitoring is currently very skewed by that some calls show extremely high latencies. This is due to that Instana measures some corner cases that is not really interesting from performa...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7750 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7750 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to unavailability of ITNCM drivers
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7450 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7450 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to unavailability of ITNCM drivers
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

ITNCM Driver for Alcatel Switch 7210 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7210 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to inavailablity of ITNCM drivers
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

Fix extranneous text created in Job Stream Descriptions.

Before 9.4 Jobdescriptions if blank did not show up in composer dump files. Now all the blank descriptions when the JobStream is editted change to "Automatically added by composer" This has the following negative consequences: 1. Dump files are mu...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ITNM capability to create wireless heatmaps

This RFE is to suggest adding wireless heatmaps to ITNM to enhance mangement of wireless networks. A wireless heatmap would allow end-users to discover wireless access points and create a floorplan to show the signal strength of the access point e...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Create alternative container rightsizing action execution to directly update pod resource

The idea is mimc vertical pod autoscaler (VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler) initial mode. "Initial": VPA only assigns resource requests on pod creation and never changes them later. This is just anot...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration