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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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Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improve readability of Component Comparison results

Configuration Comparison is essential capability of the TADDM product. However, the result that is generated when using this functionality is usually full of 'Last Stored Time' results - these occur for every comparable component because they are ...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add Release marker end timestamp

I can create and update a release marker and it has a timestamp for start and last-updated. Is it possible to express a time range, to show up a long deployment? At the moment, our pipelines create a release marker, after all pods in a rolling upd...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Ability to load Actuals to IIP via ADM

The functionality did exist, providing the ability to load Actuals to all of the Months via ADM.  Regardless if the Actuals changed or not.  This functionality does not currently exist now.  We would like to request the enhancement,...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Future consideration

When creating a DWC or MDM Database on MS SQL Server, the dbuser is ignored

When I run configureDb.vbs script to crate and populate either the DWC or MDM Database, the dbuser is ignored. cscript configureDb.vbs --work_dir C:/temp --rdbmstype MSSQL --dbname DWCDB --dbuser iwsdbuser --dbpassword ***** --dbhostname whaleshar...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ITM Agent shows wrong OS version in TEP on Windows 2022 platform

ITM monitoring agent V6.3 with SP6 seems to work in recently published Windows 2022 Server OS. However Attribute "Windows Operation System Type" shows wrong OS version in TEP like Windows_2019 for Windows 2022. I remember there was a same problem ...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

For NOIHybrid Deployment SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE should be exposed in NOIHybrid yaml file

For Customer with NOI Hybrid Deployment if OCP and Webgui are on separate Domain, user has to manually set SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE = "None" in Environment variable in commom-ui-uiserver deployment. for Any reason id user reconfigures the NOI hybri...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to a fully encrypted Sybase database

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to fully encrypted Sybase databases.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Modify how DA launches a job to mimic how FTA launches the same job

FTA launches a job by first launching jobmanrc and then if LOCAL_RC_OK is set to true, it launches .jobmanrc in the logon user's home dir. In this process, it never sets the variable PATH. A DA launches a job by first launching taskLauncher.sh and...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Include filtered totals in any object totals

If you filter actions in a plan, the total number of actions does not change with the number. It'd be very helpful to see what the total is once filters are applied. Example: run a plan to rightsize a group of vms. your plan actions show "plan act...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration