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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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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Additional Parameter Option for Filemonitor

We would like an additional parameter added to the filemonitor process to allow the ability to relocate a file that has been preciously found and recorded into the filemonitor database.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

CustomAppServer to support script-based discovery mode

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (BABL) have worked with Aricent (an IBM development partner) over the last 12 months to create the ability to discover devices behind firewalls by utilising our BigFix infrastructure - this removes the need to imp...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Auto Recover from Hung threads and connections

Terminate any hung threads in application server(WebSphere) and close the hung DB connections without the need to restart the application process.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Standardize date and time display

Allow the user to configure the display of date and time values. Consistently apply formatting across the produce. A good default format would be ISO-8601. 2018-04-22 16:20.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Impossible to install iSeries Agent on iASP storage

Installation on iSeries does not work if the user library has been bound to an iASP storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_storage_pool).The installation fails in the step that configures the iOS part.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

the job object to the description on the job object in a given job stream

When defining a job object, we type a description in Workload Designer. See attached RFE01.PNG When using the job object in a job stream, the description field on the job is blank again. Of cource we can just type the descprition again, identical ...
about 11 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Mutiple selection of extractions/definition/rules/policies in order to deactivate/delete them should be possible

Deleting multiple extraction/definitions/rules/policies requires enormous amount of clicks.We should have at least a way to select multiple extraction/definition/rules/policies to disable in the first place and after that to delete. Bare in mind t...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

AWS S3 Client Adapter for IBM Workload Automation

We would like to add support for Workload Automation so that it can interact with AWS S3 services to connect to S3 buckets and perform operations on them.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

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 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable CTRL-F (freeze) in Event Viewer

In in Event Viewer there is a shortcut for freezing the event list. The shortcut (CTRL-F) is normally used for finding stuff in the browser. This causes the user to freeze the event list by mistake, which causes them to miss alarms.We want the opt...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration