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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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NPI Restoration Blueprint

It is not possible to backup the installation just by copying the folders, because most of the services are installed as OS level service. we can use below options:1. Backup the VM of all the NPI nodes. (should stop all services including Hadoop &...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Customer should be abble to choose severity and return code for some message like EQQ0590W

We request to permit to the product to put OR RC=4 OR RC=8 for some messages and then to handle correctly the corresponding behaviour, depending from Customer needs
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Possibility of reduce traffic for MongoDB Agent

We have problem with our MongoDB Dba as the Mongo Db Application Performance Management Agent is producing too much traffic on mongos servers We should be able to reduce the traffic MongoDB agent tries to connect (to required host and port) in eve...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Support of IMS and STP Inventory/Topology Discovery is required in ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K

ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K designed for PSCORE and CSCORE does not discover IMS (IP Multimedia) and STP (Signalling) Inventory/Topology . Enhancement of Collector is required to support same. Note: HuaweiM2K collector works on XML files received fro...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Separate PATH and user id for ASD DB2 Discovery

Currently the ASD scripts for DB2 uses db2inst id for discovery. the script paths are derived from the home directory of db2inst user id (db2 installation path) we need to seperate the user id used for discovery to something other than the db2 ins...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Have IWS Support PostgreSQL database

Have IWS support the PostgreSQL database.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DB trigger syntax. Not updating field if it already contains string which is to be added

We have customized DB trigger to deduplicate events from multiple config items into one "master" event.To keep track of the config items for which problem was triggered. We have custom field "TsSMFIDList" where all config items are being added as ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TLS 1.3 support for nco-p-socket-java probe

We need the ability for the nco-p-socket-java probe to support the SSL version TLS 1.3. Unfortunately the current version supports only TLS 1.0 or maybe TLS 1.2 if you use a external java. TLS 1.2 isn't state of the art.We need a probe binary that...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

New variable tws.job.runcount

The variable tws.job.runcount should contain the number of reruns of a job. A job runs the first time after it's ordered the variable contains a 1. After a rerun (automatic or manually) it contains a 2. Next rerun a 3 and so on.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

WebGUI 8.1 : Export to CSV right click tool

Users want to have a right click tool to export all alarms from current event viewer (as per chosen filter) directly to excel/CSV.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration