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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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Show amount of members in a stack

View the number of members of a stack in the display windowStackable switches (up to 8 members in a stack)2960X, 2960S, 2960XR of 2960 series3850 series3650 series9000 series #show switchSwitch/Stack Mac Address : H/W CurrentSwitch# Role Mac Addre...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

IWS/IWA Filewatch JOBStream improvment

The client is using the Filewatch capabilities to manage input files coming from external partners/clients. During a normal day they need to manage the following situations: - No file received - a single file received - Multiple file received They...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

The Filter Options on Object Manager should default to "show both"

Every admin should, by default, get a holistic view of what the discovery for a device is actually doing. If they cannot make this a default, then at least make it an option in the settings to make this the default.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Not under consideration

Instana should integrate with DB2 DBA/Management tools for deep dive export DB performance for troubleshooting and administration.

Instana customer have to use 3rd party DB management tools, like DBMariine, to retrieve more detail DB2 performance information for troubleshooting. Suppose Instana should integrate DB2 DBA related tools.
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Kill Zombie Jobs: Add functionality to be able to recover from a corrupted Jobtable on an FTA

When an FTA crashes and gets a corrupted Jobtable and the Jobtable must be removed, jobs that were in EXEC status before the crash remain in EXEC state and take run slots against the server limit, and job stream limit if applicable, even after the...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Enable SSL on Objectserver IDUC port

IDUC traffic is not secure. Currently Objectserver IDUC port listening parameter only give possibility to set port number, without SSL. It should be option the same as objectserver port (4101 SSL) for IDUC communcation
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TADDM should create IpDevice for ALL IPs that respond to ping

Expectations are that all active IPs will be detected by TADDM, and at a minimum IpDevice will be created. We have detected this is not happening today. Today, TADDM only detects devices with certain TCP ports active. RFE is to enhance the PingSen...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Per job E2E accounting from mainframe should be possible without DB2

To support and offer better solutions to our customers we would like to use the "per job accounting" from the mainframe without having the DB2 history database installed. Some of our mainframe customers have several servers installed and could be ...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

cEdge devices QoS Reporting to be enabled on SDWAN Health Dashboard for CCSDWAN customers

cEdge devices QoS Reporting to be enabled on SDWAN Health Dashboard for CCSDWAN customers
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 6 Planned for future release