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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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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

TDWC current plan add issues

 When adding an application into the current plan VIA the TDWC there is no way of changing the jobs in the app. For example- if you need to change a workstation we can't as it don't list the jobs in the app when doing the add operation. Also  Yo...
almost 11 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Unable to do Simple Job Restart with TDWC

When using the TDWC we should have the options of simple job restart in the drop down menu for job recovery processing. Only have fast restart available. this is essentially procedural as we can “ready” the job as such there is a viable work aroun...
almost 11 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Flag to avoid using login credentials from System Properties

Flag to avoid UOW considering login credentials from System Properties
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

ITNCM compliance- a way to tell which extractions are called by which definitions

We want to be able to see which Extractions are called by the Policies, Rules and Definitions - so that we know which ones to copy to the production system. It looks like the only way to do this is to open each individual Definition to see if it c...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

IWS MDM software has had issues with STIG applied Linux servers. I requested it 2 years ago WAO-I-365.

Will allow us to run IWS software on STIG applied Linux and Windows servers required by Federal guidance. Reply | Jan 13, 2023 Why has this not been resolved? We are a public sector federal customer and STIG is required on our servers.It's hanging...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need Not Synchronizing / Suspect state metrics in MS SQL events.

Hi Team, We need metrics for MSSQL Database went Not Synchronizing / Suspect state in Instana events.
5 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

To be able to monitor Nginx for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
6 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Future consideration

Show Context Menu when right click in time chart

Thanks for providing the great feature "Download a time chart as a CSV file"! https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=saas-build-265#download-a-time-chart-as-a-csv-file I used this feature, and it's a very nice feature, but...
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Match AWS Lambda invocation timestamps in Instanta Infrastructure dashboard to timestamp reported in Lambda instrumented traces or Cloudwatch.

For AWS Lambda there is a delay of >= 10 minutes for metrics like Lambda Invocation. This is because CloudWatch makes data available with some delay. However, this is causing confusion with customers as the Lambda invocation times reported in t...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration