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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Standardize date and time display

Allow the user to configure the display of date and time values. Consistently apply formatting across the produce. A good default format would be ISO-8601. 2018-04-22 16:20.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Event handler email attachments

An Action to send an email should allow one or more file attachments.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

IBM Workload Scheduler integration with ElasticSearch (ELK) for logging

The customer CaixaBank is using IBM Workload Scheduler for Distributed to schedule in several systems. There is also an ongoing project of centralize all logs, from all those systems into a central ElasticSearch repository. It provides benefits li...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

F5 device problem

Hi,We have discovered F5 devices in our infrastructure and now we are attempting to poll and store value of an OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.2.10.2.3.1.12). After polling and storing the data, when we query the historical data - the 'Instance' field is ...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration

IWS9.x event rule's human-readable date/time variables display as yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ/tz; expecting month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss

In TWS 8.6, when using any event rule human-readable variables that display date/time, the date/time is presented in this format: month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM timezone Thus TWS 8.6 the presentation looks like:April 23, 2018 6:37:00 AM CDT In IWS ...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Exporting data from DWC

The feature of exporting any details from DWC to specific formatted file, say a .csv file is not available. Addition of this will be of great help for operations/schedulers across the board
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Placeholder support for ComputerSystems not fully discovered

Option to set the isPlaceholder attribute to True for ComputerSystems that have not been fully discovered to provide a easy way to decide whether the discovered data can be considered complete or not
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Critical Path

I'm wondering if additional information can be provided when message EQQCP21I is generated. It would be helpful if the list of predecessors on the critical path that caused the message to be generated could be captured some where along with the es...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Compliance housekeeping script

Keep only one distinct policy result for each Managed Network Resource.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Planned for future release

Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration