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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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Ability to specify OS Type in ITNCM

ITNCM is based upon the concept of distinguishing between devices using Vendor/Type/Model/OS, however, this does not sufficiently take into account that there can be different OS Types.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

Custom time period at top of page to apply to all widgets on page

I’d like the ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page (Dashboards, regular VM/Group pages, etc) so it propagates to all the widgets/graphs – similar to how the limited selections do now. When using Turbo to evaluate utilization or r...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Event Manager - Have the ability to update 'Senders' name in communications

Hi, As per support ticket TS003773566, we are experiencing a low response rate from potential candidates after they receive the communication (an email) from Event manager inviting them for an interview. The sender's name is 'SystemIntegration'. T...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Cancelation of WebSphere batch job (wsgrid.bat) on Windows should invoke shutdown hook i java

Cancelling a WebSphere Batch job on Windows, a java.exe process started from the wsgrid.bat only kills the java process. The shutdown hook in java is not called and the job/step i the websphere bacth container is not interrupted/stopped. This is "...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Feature Request - Internet Explorer 7 Compatibility for Instana

We are requesting the implementation of a new feature in Instana to ensure compatibility with Internet Explorer 7. Our current configuration involves code injection at the F5 level, transitioning from the previous IIS level injection Observations:...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Instana fix pack upgrade directly from one version to any version should be possible

Currently we are using 1.239 version which is 6 months old than the latest version 1.263. Currently Instana doesn't support direct upgrade from one version to any version. We have to upgrade atleast 6 times to reach to the latest version 1.263. In...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

send Instana events to Pagerduty queue (New alert channel type for Pagerduty)

Currently the integration with pagerduty is done via Pagerduty services (You need to create one integration key per service). But there is a different way to send events to Pagerduty which is to send it to a Queue. Reasons for this requests: possi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Oracle alert log data on the mcm console

We are missing oracle alert log data in UI (mcm console), I had a discuss with UI developer team to develop UI so that we can see the oracle alert log data in mcm console same as ITM oracle extended agent. IBM Case# TS014762727
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Autometic Geo failover of Two separate MCM environments - how we can failover agents without a post-configuration script such as 1) using the same custom certificate and 2) DNS hostname change with the same ip address.

Geo failover prevents a single point of failure. Using the same custom certificate for two different MCM environments gives active/active or active/passive failover mechanism for uninterrupted 24X7 monitoring.
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration