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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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Substring broker function

Implement a broker substring function so that parts of a variable can be used in job definitions. This feature is available on all competitive products. F.e. ${substring:MYVAR,1,10} Get the first 10 characters of the variable MYVAR.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Need Remote Separate CLI component for 9.5V

TS005199456: v9.5 Remote CLI not working We have recently migrated TWS from 9.3 to 9.5V to new servers. Previously we were using remote CLI software to connect composer and edit the jobs via notepad format.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Building 64 bit datachannel code to build 64 bit pv_analytics.jar file

In case TS004896360 "LOGW Java process core dumped on out of memory", the customer faced problems when LOGW Java process core dumped on out of memory. Later in this case IBM support team told "For 64bit logw process, there is no scope to build 64 ...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

ObjectServer REST API over HTTPS support using CA signed cert on OCP Platform

Product : Watson AIOps 2.1 Event Manager (NOI 1.6.3) on OCPOCP : 4.5 (1) PoC Customer (i.e. US Tier-1 Telco) wants IBM to enable HTTPS for ObjectServer REST API instead of HTTP. At present, ObjectServer HTTP REST service has been exposed and HTTP ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Estimated runtime on jobs that run with an alias

The estimasted run time is not calculated for jobs that run with an alias, it is calculated using the original job name in the job_statistics_v database view. We have a number of standard jobs accross different applications that we run with an ali...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

To enable Headers and 'Store and Forward' mechanism to KAFKA gateway(nco_g_xml)

Product : IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Gateway forMessage Bus The Message Bus Gateway(nco_g_xml) is used for our capability to forward messages from Object Server to KAFKA server. But it is found that the headers cannot be set in the gateway and als...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

GUI for loading MIB files

System: IBM Tivoli Network Manager Actor: User needs to upload MIBs and process them without CLI access. Description: Need ability to provide users with GUI to upload MIBs for use in SNMP MIB Browser and poll definition creation.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Alcatel5620SAM Collector to support Nokia NSP 19.11 SOAP based discoveries

The Alcatel 5620 SAM SOAP Collector code currently works with NSP 17.9. A NSP 19.11 upgrade is required for Nokia IP routers to upgrade to SROS release 16, for many features including those support 5G. Also to be compliant with vendor life cycle. ...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Conversions in NOI

This is for Netcool Operations Insight. Espacially the integration in DASH. Everywhere where the field is populated from the Object Server, I see the conversions. However, the fields in the reports (Seasonal and Related Events) in NOI seems to be ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

'Schedule Report' option on reports to email the report adhoc or on schedule

On Reports have an option to send the report (history or sql) as an email. It sends it once or schedules it as job to run as required (weekly etc). Similar to how we use the Batchcli feature, but DWC does it all for you from a few clicks.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration