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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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Append config filename to the backup file content

Append config filename to the backup file content E.g.content line 1content line 2...#fileName: MAC12345/SN12345_1.cfg
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

REST API to rename the device

Provide ITNCM REST API to rename the deviceE.g. POST http://host:port/nsm/device/rename/oldname/newname
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Device driver for Checkpoint gateway, Model 4800

We are requesting driver support for the Checkpoint gateway, Model 4800 because current driver package does not support this device type.Software version on these devices is: Check point gateway and management server: R80.10
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Per job E2E accounting from mainframe should be possible without DB2

To support and offer better solutions to our customers we would like to use the "per job accounting" from the mainframe without having the DB2 history database installed. Some of our mainframe customers have several servers installed and could be ...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Make possible to remove metric names in Predictive Insights

Implement the possibility to remove the metric names in Predictive Insights 1.3.6. Once they are created, they will be forever in DASH selects, which is not only an ugly behaviour for the users, but a lack of functionality. Thanks!
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

New feature that will indicate the "baseline" type

Operations Analytics Predictive Insights version 1.3.6 is introducing the “naive” type of baseline, beside the classical “Robust Bounds” baseline (inherited from previous system versions). OA-PI 1.3.6 is creating this baseline type in case when va...
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Not under consideration

IWS/IWA distributed engine improved variable management

The customer that is an historical IWS for z/OS client is implementing their first distributed engine environment. During this implementation they discovered that the IWS distributed engine does not provide a common variable management between the...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Notification report variable table

An event handler action to "Send email" should be able to include a %{fileCrtEvt1.VariableTable} variable whenever a job stream or a job is running as part of a stream is involved. It may be empty if the stream uses no variable table or the job wa...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future 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.
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release