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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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Interface types are not distinguished in manual connection configuration

During the configuration of manual connections in layer 1, the problem has been when creating connections in layer 1 and the confusion occurs because the devices in the discovery have the same Display Label in different types of interfaces, for ex...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

ITNM Topology and Event management integration with Cisco DNA Center

Need to be able to discovery topology of SD-Access networks and obtain critical and major events into Omnibus through Cisco DNA Center.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

User credentials synchronisation between VMM and the ObjectServer if repository type is ObjectServer repository.

Need User credentials synchronization between VMM and the ObjectServer if the repository type is ObjectServer repository. The ObjectServer used for the repository should not be added as a data source.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Distinguish between ignored/unused/future-enhancement and optional fields in REST API

Improve REST API documentation so fields that are actually ignored, currently unused, or reserved for future enhancements are marked as such, and not as "optional". Optional fields imply that when users choose the option to use them, they have an ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

Global NewCo Requirement - NOI - Flexible service ids names

As part of the NewCo Event Mgmt strategy, we're creating a NOI Hybrid deployment where new components are hosted on IBM Cloud ROKS and OnPrem on Linux VMs We will have multiple instances of NOI deployed across the globe and all of them will need t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Global NewCo Requirements - Add Proxy for NOI Hybrid Deployment

In NOI Hybrid deployment architecture, there is a need to have outbound connectivity from onPrem Netcool to the NOI on OCP cloud components.We are working on a solution where NOI on OCP is hosted on IBM Cloud ROKS (OCP as a Service) and the onPrem...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

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

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

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