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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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Proactive notification/forecast of a job run in plan soon after creation/schedule

Need a proactive notification/forecast of how a job will run in plan as soon as it is created/changed in the database. e.g. If we are scheduling a 5 mins recurring job by just setting a Start Time as 05:00 GMT (without any carryforward/Until optio...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

ITNM | creating high level map for network devices located on different locations

we need to have the feature in ITNM GUI to create a map for the network devices so that they could be represented with high level view based on their region/area or POP. where user can view the topology and see the (WAN) connections between differ...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Option to add One click URL addresses to the side Menus in DASH/WebGUI

Customer is aware that it is possible to add Links to Pages in DASH/WebGUI that will appear in the side menu. These can be configured to be placed anywhere on the side menu and can open a page with a Widget with a link to an external URL. Howeve...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Replacing Scheduling Objects through Workload Applications

If a scheduling object definition included in a Workload Application already exists in the target environment, even though a dialog during the import process provides an option to replace it, it is unable to replace it. This is because the existin...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Resource state at node start time

The original state of a resource (when a node first comes online or a domain comes online) is treated differently to a monitor command returning 0 (unknown) or a monitor timing out.With this running resources are stopped, whenthere is a dependency...
about 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Driver request for Cisco WLAN Controller network device

This is a request to add support / functionality of SDN devices, specifically Cisco WLAN Controller devices. This would mean we would have a driver for CM that would allow us to perfom common UoW tasks for these type of devices.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration

AWS S3 Client Adapter for IBM Workload Automation

We would like to add support for Workload Automation so that it can interact with AWS S3 services to connect to S3 buckets and perform operations on them.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

LDAP Group Support for ICAM

We need ICAM to be able to support LDAP groups so that based on the group the user belongs to the appropriate ICAM group and roles can automatically be assigned.
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Grouping multiple job streams during submit

Hi I've some across the requirement to submit a set of job streams (group) while maintaining the correct external follows dependencies. When doing this manually, this means that it should be done with great caution and in a correct order. What we ...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Job/Stream dependency based on message/api to support interactivity with Cloud environments like AWS and Azure

We would like to have Workload Automation jobs to be reactive/dependent on jobs/activities in the cloud so that after getting a message via message queue or an API call a dependent job/stream on the IWS side will start. Similar to how a file depen...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration