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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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compliance manager process - select by VTMOS realm AND device realm

In a Compliance Manager process, we need a way to get it to select the devices to run policies against by both VTMOS realm AND device realm - the GUI currently only allows either/or and we really need to be able to do both. E.g. at present we can ...
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Additional actions for the TWSActionPlugIn

Currently, the TWSActionPlugIn only allows for submitting a job stream / job or replying to a prompt. Other actions are also required like:- Cancel Job Stream (with/without pending)- Cancel Job (with/without pending)- Change Job Stream Priority- C...
about 10 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Not under consideration

Shadow jobs between zOS and TwsD : Matching criteria same scheduled date

Between TWS 8.6 zOS and TwsD 9.1 shadow jobs, the only value for "matching criteria" is "previous". We'd like you to offer also the value "same scheduled date". Thanks for your feedback.
about 10 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

creating a Domain should not automatically switch on ip_forwarding

creating a TSAMP-Domain causes unasked ip_forwarding to "on" even though it is not necessary if CG(s) are all in the same subnet. RSCT needs the function "Loose Source Routing":A simple answer for now is that RSCT uses LSR to deal with communicati...
about 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool should show/use all information available

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool : Use all available information (L2, L3, routing information (costs, type, ..) in PathView + HopView
about 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Not under consideration

Configurable password expiry

Administrators should have the ability to configure user accounts to have passwords that expire after a period of time.
about 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

ITNM 3.9 - Poller not clearing events

If a device gets a new IP the old event is never cleared automatically as there is no current correlation for the events based on the device itself. After the discovery sets the device with the new IP that changed during the night, the polling sho...
about 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 5 Not under consideration

tivoli common reporting - report package for Account Management?

We need to be able to provide reports on Account Management (e.g. what Activities etc. are allowed for each user group)? I would have thought this ought to be a standard set of reports for use with TIP, but I can't find any reference to it.
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Vulnerabilitiy reporting on all Cisco and ALU devices in ITNCM database

Description: A function to provide a Reports on a per Realm or Vendor / Type basis, showing all hardware and OS related vulnerabilities. This would be based on Vendor published information.The output of this feature should also be available for ex...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

EoS / EoL Reporting on all Cisco and ALU devices in ITNCM database

A function to provide a Reports on a per Realm or Vendor / Type basis,showing all hardware and OS components, and their End of Support and End of Life status. This would be based on vendor published information.The output of this feature should al...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration