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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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Check Java version in prerequisite scanner

We recently updated one of our customers to ITNM FixPack 10. During preparation for the change, we checked the system requirements using the prerequisite scanner. Unfortunately, the prereq checker doesn't seem to check for the java version require...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration

Allow Event rules to be exported and imported.

This would be great for DEV and PROD systems. If I add many event rules for testing on DEV it would be great to be able to export them and import them into the PROD server.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Functionality already exists

Automatic rebuild topological view after discovery

After run of discovery we need the automatic update of topological view for include new devices discovered. See also further datail in reported case.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Multiple Labor Allocation Rule Reference Data Versions

The ability to save different versions of Labor Allocation Rules to be used for current year Forecast and next year Budget.  The facilities loadings, vacancy rates, bonus %, insurance costs, etc vary from year-to-year.  We currently must...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Have a ThoughtSpot report to show historical growth trend by entity type

We'd like to see a historical growth trend by entity type (e.g., how many VMs, DBs, etc. each day/week/month for the past <time period>)
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

To offer TADDM WMI extention update as a .msi file to simplify automating deployment in environments where the autodeploy feature is not an option

With each TADDM Fixpack, an updated TADDM WMI extention is offered. This WMI extention has to be installed on all Windows systems to ensure the Session and Windows Computer Sensors continue to work properly. One can use the WMI Autodeploy feature ...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Adding search for Predictive Analysis by Topic

In Dashboard on pages Service Diagnosis Anomaly Search and Service Diagnosis Metric Search, which are showing data form Predictive Insight 1.3.6, it would be very helpful to be able to filter data by topics. At the moment we see only Resource, Met...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

SELinux support for Netcool Omnibus on RHEL8

The default configuration of SELinux on RHEL8 is set to 'enforced'. During a Netcool Omnibus 8.1 installation on RHEL8, we noticed that the installation as such was fine, the ObjectServer and probes also were running. BUT, the nco start-up scripts...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

The metrics pods are erroring out because they cannot have a secret defined for them. This causes many errors. Need to turn them off OR add a secret.

The current metrics pods are used to gather data for the last 14 days so that Turbo instances can instantly give recommendations on being connected to a new target without having to wait 14 days. However in this particular client (and I'm sure oth...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Is a defect