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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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Extend IWS REST to contain more basic modificaton operations

Please add rest methods for IWS 9.5 to be able easily to do: Add a job into an existing jobstream – that should be a method with few parametersRemove a job from an existing jobstream - that should be a method with few parametersAdd a dependency in...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

New function in Impact for dealing with special characters

As suggested in case, we would like to suggest creating new function for handling special characters. In rules file for probe exists similar function called printable(). In situation when event need to be updated through Impact policy and event co...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

IWS/About specification change of message notification from MDM

User has troubled job management due to mailman down of Domain Manager. Case No : TS001488604.As a result of the analysis, the cause was found to be an overflow of the Domain Manager message file (. Msg).While stopping some FTAs ​​during periodic ...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Custom job flags

Have the ability to put user made flags against jobs on any workastation, in any job stream to be able to monitor these jobs in DWC filtering against this flag. Like the CRITICAL flag, but without prioritisation.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Additional Workstation Columns

Our operators are looking to have other column when viewing workstations. Workstation Unlinked Time Agent Running Stopped TimeWriter Running Stopped Time
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide improved Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches

Improve the Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches, so Switch information is buried below the physical frames. Support case TS001215656 has the entire history of the issue.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Future consideration

Make the 4 minutes fixed deadline of ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART flexible or provide a new option

We need to be able to add a waiting time to the ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART setting in a stream, this is now hard coded to 4 minutes.OrProvide us with a new option, something like ONOVERLAP CANCEL. Which would cancel itself automatically when the next in...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

CST. Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1 etc

Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1, support for spaces in directory/sensor names, and correction of the invocation of the ASDMAINSCRIPT in the archive file). To provide a work-around to officially support async...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration