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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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Update TADDM API to support iSeries discovery using PKI

As TADDM can use the SSH Public Key Infrastructure to authenticate the access to Unix or Linux target systems, why is this not possible to set up for iSeries machines ?To quote from the Sensor log "TADDM does not support the discovery of IBM i sys...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

MCM Cassandra , increase trace retention to 4 days

Our customer from CE needs the retention data of application traces to be 4 days , instead of default 2 days. We understood this is hardcoded in Cassnadra but can not be changed / configured. We are using OCP 4.10.43 + MCM 2.3.28(FP6) TS011304665
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Improving authentication between Netcool and SNOW

Security is a major concern for all IT application today. As per recommended security standard, authentication between applications using basic authentication is creating a risk of exposing the username and password to hackers and they can use the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated for a single data point in the aggregate table for the month.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Validate/Edit the policy and how to migrate the learnt policy from one env to other

CNEA - validating the machine policy learning, how to unlearn, and how to migrate the learnt policies between environments. If we give the task to validate the grouping to an SME, how does a business person validate the policy, able to edit, able ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Correlation-id based logging approach when provisioning infrastructure

New correlation-id should be created for each API call/request and should be carried forward to the subsequent internal calls to the other microservices. All logs should be prefixed with the correlation-id (supported by many logging libraries) In ...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Mouse over on link or device icon in ncp_gis [NetKitMapWidget.jsp] shows fixed data. Add Custom Fields

the columns in the event or topology list are fixed. All that can be altered is whether or not the current columns are displayed, you can't alter the filter to display other columns. So we need some facilitation or enabled to add user specific fields
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

SNMP Polling can't be done in the console

Currently ITNM is not used for performance polling and SNMP polling is not in scope and the topology is only used for discovery purpose.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

TWS event rule to monitor files in a Folder

TWS event rule needs to monitor file changes in certain folder and submit a job for sync in other server. For Example Master server's methods folder will be having its connected SAP server's .opts file. If any changes happens to any of the .opts f...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration