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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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OMNIbus Probe/Gateway for Kafka Integration with Confluent Kafka

The Probes/Gateways for Kafka Integration has been certified, with Apache Kafka and IBM Event Streams. IBM event streams is deprecated and we are positioning only Confluent Kafka as part of Cloud Pak for Integration. So certification for Confluent...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enable user impersonation in docker Zcentric agents for running the jobs under different application usernames.

For now, IWS have limitation on executing the jobs only under wauser in docker zCentric agents and per IBM documentation user impersonation is not feasible on docker agents. In a traditional TWS environment, user impersonation is possible. We are ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ansible Automation Scripts for Agent and TEPS Installation

Clients today use ITM as a base monitoring solutions for a variety of systems. In order to easily roll out ITM to additional systems, the ask is that ITM provide ansible automation scripts to assist with installation of server and agent components.
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Add support to another KexAlgorithms for SSh login

While scanning with TADDM part of the infrastructure, we couldn't login due to mismatch of the kexAlegorithms setup on the OS level and supported by TADDM => The kex algo 'curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org' is not supported by TADD...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future 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

ITNM Discovery Improvement for FULL And PARTIAL

Can we have Dual discovery or much controlled and customised discovery modes: main aim is to reduce long discovery times here. For Ex. what we are looking for is described below: Let us say we have seed based control not using scope based: [two se...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Dedicated Juniper and Huawei telnet agents to collect and process OSPF data

Our customer have a need for specific Juniper and Huawei OSPF disco agents, because right now OSPF data for this vendors collected not fully (for example missing connections if OSPF protocol configured on a subinterface rather then on interface).
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

ITNM capability to create wireless heatmaps

This RFE is to suggest adding wireless heatmaps to ITNM to enhance mangement of wireless networks. A wireless heatmap would allow end-users to discover wireless access points and create a floorplan to show the signal strength of the access point e...
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Restrict Import Financials, Import Contracts, Import Asset, Import Labor functionality

We would like to restrict the access for Cost Center Owners to not be allowed to Import csv's into the various IT Planning tabs.  They should be allowed to Export but we have encountered many times where they have incorrectly imported files r...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review