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Option to add One click URL addresses to the side Menus in DASH/WebGUI

Customer is aware that it is possible to add Links to Pages in DASH/WebGUI that will appear in the side menu. These can be configured to be placed anywhere on the side menu and can open a page with a Widget with a link to an external URL. Howeve...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

LDAP Group Support for ICAM

We need ICAM to be able to support LDAP groups so that based on the group the user belongs to the appropriate ICAM group and roles can automatically be assigned.
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Job/Stream dependency based on message/api to support interactivity with Cloud environments like AWS and Azure

We would like to have Workload Automation jobs to be reactive/dependent on jobs/activities in the cloud so that after getting a message via message queue or an API call a dependent job/stream on the IWS side will start. Similar to how a file depen...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Handling of jobstream submissions during switchplan

During the execution of the switchplan sometimes the submit of jobstreams fails. The reason is obviuous: the Symphony file is being created at this moment and the submission cannot be handled therefore. Currently users must prevent this from happe...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Custom Template Sensor - executeCommandWithTimeout (may) block if standard input is not redirected from a file

The executeCommandWithTimeout command (may) block if standard input is not redirected from a file. The command we are executing does not as far as I can tell read from standard input, so I don't really understand why this is happening). We redirec...
over 9 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Is a defect

Custom Template Sensor - executeCommandWithTimeout does not handle standard error

The jython executeCommandWithTimeout does not handle standard error. We had to redirect stderr to stdout to see anything written on stderr. The output on stderr should be logged by default.
over 9 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Enhance WAT Features for migration

We observed few limitations while migrating IWA objects using WAT. Please consider below points to be enhanced in the Workload Application Template Feature in the future release. External job and job stream dependencies are not getting reflected w...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Monitor the "Listener port" - "Initial State"

Our request is reflected in the case: TS007650650. It is critical for us to be able to monitor the listener port. The WAS agent provides this opportunity, but with restrictions. And it is critical for us to monitor the parameter: "Listener port" -...
almost 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

ICAM Agent/Collector for Netcool/Omnibus/Impact

There are lots of ICAM agents/collectors but there is not one for Netcool/Omnibus/Impact. We are a heavy user of Netcool/Omnibus/Impact. There needs to be an ICAM specific agent/collector which gather appropriate metrics to be alarm and trended on.
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Extracting user list from DWC

Why is it useful? 1. It is useful for the purpose of timely review conducted by every client to have a clear picture of what users have access to application and what is the type of access. 2. It simplifies the review for auditors as well for inte...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration