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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?
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Critical Path

I'm wondering if additional information can be provided when message EQQCP21I is generated. It would be helpful if the list of predecessors on the critical path that caused the message to be generated could be captured some where along with the es...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improve performance login on IWS for z/OS

In order to allow to understand in detail the load induced by PIF jobs on the TWS consumption, we wish to be able to have an option to activate a detailed log of the CPU cost of each PIF. In addition, in order to quantify the quality of TSO users'...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

TWS is very sensitive to the point that even a small increase in SAN disk I/O wait, delays job execution

Constant read/write of data by TWS into .msg queues makes TWS very sensitive, even a small increase of 8-10 msecs in disk I/O wait time starts queueing up messages in Intercom.msg and eventually delaying job execution.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support extended characters in user name of IBM Workload Scheduler product

Government of Alberta User Name standards include a dot "." in the user name. IWS Installer limits the User name can contain alphanumeric, dash (-), and underscore (_) characters. Requesting extension of this limitation to include other extended c...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhancement in show differences function

User wants an option in show differences function to see only configuration which is different, other common configuration items should not be displayed.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

NOT ASSESSED evaluation should show the XPATH on Results screen

NOT ASSESSED evaluation should show the XPATH on the right side of the Results screen
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Compliance Edit Definition must show all the evaluations

Compliance Edit Definition must show all the xpath evaluations in order to delete the unwanted evaluations, which is not possible from GC template.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Compliance scripting helper - getXpathConfig

Requesting a new Compliance Scripting helper 'String getXpathConfig(String xpath)' that returns configuration under a given xpath from modeled config.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Couldn't extract "Spool List Recipient" details from r3tool

Unable to extract "Spool List Recipient" details from r3tool. When we define email ID for a SAP job , this detail is missing when we take the back of that job using r3tool.But when we define the email ID for the step information in "Spool Request"...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Future consideration