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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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Export Topology Maps to Visio

The client would like the ability to export Topology Network Views to Visio as current functionality via SVG or PNG does not provide enough detail.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

“Disable BDC Wait” for all jobs in one single global parameter in TWS configurations, instead of disabling it job by job

Today, we are not able to Disable BDC wait for all jobs at once. We should be able to do it in configuration that would affect all jobs globally. You can use the case below for reference TS002011039, as I was not able to add it to the correct fiel...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add a run cycle for an event rule

Having the equivalent of a run cycle in the job stream but for the event rules, which would allow an event to be available for instance from Monday through Friday
almost 11 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Support changing plan in monitoring views

Operations and developers frequently want to compare and contrast a job or job stream between production days. Letting DWC users select the production plan directly from a monitoring view instead of dismissing the view and generating a new one fro...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

SA MP / LVM integration

looking for a functionality that would prevent you from the ability to mount the shared file system manually. the shared file systems are shared with 2 DB2 cluster nodes.
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

preventing IBM.RecoveryRM issuing uncontrolled ctsnap

in case of IBM.RecoveryRM failures the deamon issues the ctsnap command. This will fill up the /tmp dir uncontrolled.
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Event Analytics - Option to define the pattern discovery timeframe

If groups/pattern timeframe can be set during discovery rather than post discovery via edit pattern option.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

search functionality of a multi-paged device configuration

can we enable the functionality of searching a multi-paged device configuration in a single go which is currently unvailable
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

compliance - hide View Native Config and View Modelled config

We need to be able to create user account(s) with minimal permissions purely for Reporting access for a single Realm. We have been able to do this for Configuration Manager GUI by creating a security set which prevents the user from seeing the dev...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration

Event Rules Email Variables

Relating to event rules emails...We need variables to insert the JCL/Command of the job...and...one to insert the job log.
almost 11 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Not under consideration