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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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Navigate with context to Events window.

from AP dashboards allow navigation directly to events with event.application/service/endpoint.name populated.
over 3 years ago in Instana 4 Not under consideration

Limits by combining multiple job streams

Today we can set limits at Workstation level and Job Stream Level. However if we have to have a combined sub limit for multiple job streams, it is hard to achieve. Requirement is for grouping of job streams and setting a limit on them.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance 'Takeover' process in IBM Workload Manager

The 'Hot Standby' process for the Controller needs to be enhanced to allow for a very high availability environment. Specifically the 'TAKEOVER' command should be enhanced so that it functions when there is already an active Controller.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide GUI for polling confirmation

Add a GUI option to display which poll definitions and policies apply to a given device or set of devices.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Provide enumeration lookup from within poll definitions

Provide an enumeration lookup from within the Event Summary of a poll definition to convert integer values into meaningful text.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

DWC View Efficiencies

There are multiple DWC queries required for my Operations team to use each shift. We recently migrated to Workload Automation 9.5 and find it inefficient to manually run each query at the top of every shift (e.g.: All Workstations in plan, All Job...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

Need to specify acceptable cipher suites in ssl handshake for Message Bus Probe

We would like to use the Message bus probe to accept alert info from an externally hosted service. Our corporate network team specifies 6 ssl cipher suites as acceptable for externally accessible urls. We would like to be able to specify the list ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

GUI for restarting processes

Provide a GUI to restart ITNM processes. This would be helpful for kill -USR, kill -HUP, and starting failed processes.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Netcool ObjectServer REST HTTP enhancement to support OAUTH with Kerberos

This request is to update/enhance the authentication methods used by the ObjectServer HTTP/HTTPS REST API from basic http auth to using industry standard OAUTH this would allow for the usage of Kerberos keys reducing the need for passing passwords...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Virtual Center sensor regex filter

Virtual Center sensor returns every computer system active in vCenter. However, this can cause invalid computer systems to get created in TADDM. I would like to be able to filter out invalid servers. If you could pass all vCenter hostname through ...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration