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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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Use Local Resources Globally

A resource defined on a Dynamic Agent can not be used as a dependency on a job on another Dynamic Agent in the same Job Stream.
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Integration with data federation solutions (Spectrum/Noobaa) to more holistically manage and move stateful workloads

Client's are interested in data federation whenever app management/movement comes up. Would like to see a level of integration with both the IBM (Spectrum) and RH (https://www.noobaa.io/) capabilities to make movement of the associated app data se...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

WHP IBM workload scheduler needs to be adapted to use the new SAP BO API

The FTAs are FTA159UP_1 (PRD) and FTA012LT_1 (TEST) the error when we lunch this webi pubblication report is Cannot cast class com.businessobjects.sdk.plugin it seems that the IBM workload scheduler needs to be adapted to use the new SAP BO API th...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow multiple Applicable Device Filters for ITNCM-Compliance Rules

When customers create a compliance Rule, they are only offered a single Applicable Device Filter.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify OS Type in ITNCM

ITNCM is based upon the concept of distinguishing between devices using Vendor/Type/Model/OS, however, this does not sufficiently take into account that there can be different OS Types.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

Ability to have a "No Action" Compliance rule terminator

We want to be able to check if a device has a feature and then confirm it is configured correctly. If it does not have the feature, the compliance policy should not fail. There should be a rule "No Action" terminator for the compliance fule.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Usage and Metering

As an MCM service provider, I’d like to be able to retrieve usage and metering data through our MCM hub via a multi-tenant aware API at relative high frequency (on demand) for billing purposes.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

Impersonation support for MCM APIs

I'd like to manage and provision software to a managed cluster through our MCM hub as the user requesting the software to prevent security issues arising from elevated privilege. For example, charts or operators that are configured to install to n...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Log Aggregation

We want to be able to retrieve logs generated on the managed clusters through APIs exposed on the MCM hub. W up to and including pods.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration