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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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Create a way to time out from for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

For security reasons, we need to guarantee that the Netcool Administrator Console will close automatically after a certain period. This will make the solution suitable for more rigid security procedures.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 5 Not under consideration

Add the Old Values for changes in the Action Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure. This is a requirement for PCI DSS Compliance.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

opt-in for JVM apps on multi-tenant hosts

Enabling Instana on a cluster in a multi-tenant setup does not allow opt-in rollout for JVM based applications. This setup is common for Kubernetes clusters. This makes roll out much harder, since the tenants (=teams) can't opt-in on their own and...
over 2 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Micrometer metrics for JVMs running on Fargate

Most of the JVM monitoring capabilities work on Fargate. For some reason though, Micrometer support is not part of it.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Required Driver for Core Router Model -NCS 5508

Hello Team, We need the driver download link with following VTMOS:- V-CISCO T- Router M -NCS-5508 OS-NCS5500-iosxr-7.5.1 Thanks, Ritesh
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

Required Driver for Cisco Router NCS-5504

Hello Team, We need the driver download link with following VTMOS:- V-CISCO T- Router M -NCS-5504 OS-NCS5500-iosxr-k9-7.5.1 Thanks , Ritesh
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

Probes rules to enhance NetACT events with data necessary for ITNM to compute RCA

Current NcKL probes rules for NetACT do not currently set the fields used by ITNM for Root-Cause Analysis(RCA). This RFE is in addition to RFE 135039 on the ITNM side. It is meant to ensure once the probe passes the events with the necessary data,...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Load Balancer Configuration For TADDM

As per the documentation, there are 2 ways to configure the load balancer for TADDM. One way is to run discovery job with load balancing across Discovery Servers taking IP's from different files and create new scope. The limitation with the curren...
about 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

WA-100029 causing undesired data in the audit trail - make it configurable/tunable

Support ticket TS008699033. We installed 9.5 FP5 and noticed that our audit trail in the database began to expand rapidly. Ultimately it was noted that WA-100029 had added an unconditional audit of all GET operations, but the release notes did not...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Selectively include Oracle Request log in IWS job log

The request log from an Oracle E-Business concurrent program submission, managed by IWS, is not currently included in the associated IWS job logs. Having the ability to selectively include the request log into the IWS job log can make it easier fo...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration