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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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Installation Process should also include using yaml to install

This is to provide an installation path when using the console is not an option because of customer security restrictions. Also to make changes after the installation you use yaml. Also if you have to make adjustments from the defaults then it's a...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Allow event handler to specify Variable Table to start job/stream

An event handler action which starts a job and/or stream should be able to specify a variable table to be used. In addition, it should be possible to run an executable with parameters to determine the variable table name. An absolute name could be...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow stream name alias on event rule.

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

src stops too early at system shutdown / reboot

during shutdown a linux server we want to exclude the node using /etc/init.d/rcx.. scripts but src was killed as soon as shutdown begins so we have no chance to stop our applications before.
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 5 Not under consideration

Proxy support for IWS ServiceNow interface

The IWS ServiceNow interface introduced with IWS v9.4 lacks the ability to specify a proxy server in the call to ServiceNow. I am requesting that that functionality be added.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

IWA - Dynamic Agent job persistance on "no resource found" error

Add the ability to define jobs that run on a dynamic agent to not error if there is no resource found to run the job. Currently, if all agents defined for the job are down, the job results in an error and must be manually rerun. Add the ability fo...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

(NPI) Ability to modify Traffic Volume Trend graph to view bandwidth by interface/circuit

Would like the ability to modify the Traffic Volume Trend graph to view the bandwidth used based on a specific interface and/or circuit, by percentage of bandwidth used (i.e. 0-100%).
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Make MAXDUR/MINDUR available in Job History as are latest start and DEADLINE already present

It is not possible to report on jobs that have exceeded their MAXDUR setting nor those that did not meet their MINDUR setting as this information is not recorded in the TWS database. This request is to include the amount of time the job exceeded t...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Information on jobs waiting on parallel server limits

Would like a report of jobs waiting on workstation parallel servers and how long they were waiting before starting. This would facilitate analysis of jobstream delays and identifying bottlenecks in the nightly batch.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration