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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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Team / Org Seperation needed from CloudAutomationManager to AnsibleTower

Customers are setting up a single CAM / Tower system and want to be able to separate the templates and what templates each team can see. Team A: access to tower templates in project ATeam B: access to tower templates in project B Today the teams...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Saving NCO_PA configuration file via CLI utility

We can customize (add processes and services) of Process Agent settings via CLI nco_pa_addentry utility, but all new implemented settings can not be saved by any CLI tool.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 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

POC-Arlo - Libraries to help automate C++ instrumentation

The customer has a large monolithic app that comprises about 1/3 of their environment that is written in C++. They are aware that instrumentation via web trace sdk is possible but have declined to use this due to required code changes. If we could...
almost 5 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Service Entity rules with an Application Perspective scope should only fire if calls in the AP are impacted

TL DR - the customer expectation when setting up a Service alert with an Application Perspective scope is that it uses the same KPIs that they see when viewing the service within the AP.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Macro to determine subsystem name of the current PIF-session in Cobol

Programms (Cobol) communicating with IWS via PIF and allocated EQQYPARM-file do not have access to the subsystem name. The internal BIB-block stores or point to this data. However this block ist not documented.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Provide Store and Forward Feature for Message Bus Gateway

Need the same capability as other Netcool/Omnibus gateways for the Message Bus Gateway to store and forward the event data when the targeted message bus is unavailable.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 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...
almost 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...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration