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TS015241046 - nco-p-patrol the probe not supported on zLinux

The customer "american express" is moving all Netcool to zLinux, when we try to install nco-p-patrol, it's not supporting. Please could you rebuild the probe to zLinux also? CC8WCEN NetcoolOMNIbus 8 Certified Probe for BMC PATROL V9 (nco-p-patrol-...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Increase Maximum Byte Constraint on "Node" (Currently 51 bytes)

Node name currently has a maximum byte size of 51 chars. We have nodes with FQDN's source AWS that require 75 chars. We request that node name be increased to some value at or exceeding 128 bytes to facilitate long node values in the future. Appli...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ProcessID missing in joblogs for windows processes

CASE ID - TS003942595During investigations to identify long running issues of a job, we found that Windows ProcessID is not supplied back to the Job Log, Yet for Linux/Unix processes the ID is provided. This makes tracing the process thats causing...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Show interface bundle (link aggregation) mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports

Allows troubleshooting of bundle (link aggregation) related issues. Show interface bundle mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports, for example "Network Device Summary" and "Network Performance Report".
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add Filter Check Boxes to SDN Fault Widget

The customer stated on a few occasions that "in its current state it is not usable," referring to the SDN Fault Messages widget in Data Insight. The corresponding page in the Cisco APIC GUI has check boxes to hide acknowledged faults and hide dele...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Need a way to visualize TWS objects in a text mode in DWC

Our user base depends on text visualization and the ability to view, modify, update TWS objects in a text format. This is not via Composer. DWC has no such functionality and we are trying to deploy DWC but adoption will be slow without some way to...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancement request to take an action when all rerun attempts got completed using Event rule.

1. IWA to invoke Python script only after final attempt of re-run of a given job fails a. We need to submit script using adhoc job in event rule whenever there is a job ABEND, when all the automatic reruns/ iterations are completed. b. Currently t...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancement request to remove character limitation of event rules for variable resolution.

a. We need adhoc job having a Meaning full name, b. Tried to pass the actual job name, but we can't run multiple jobs with same job name, due to iteration we need multiple triggers. c. To add dynamic value along with Job name due to 40character li...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ai scheduling

I would like ot see a monitor for my sla's (critical jobs) that can help make suggestions to reduce the amount of time that an SLA woudl take
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration