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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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Last Resort Circuit Status Support in ITNM

We need to be able to manage last resort circuit status where the interaface is normally ifadmin up and ifoper down until the primary circuits fail at which time the last resort circuit moves to ifadmin up and ifoper up. We need to not create inte...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

To avoid disk getting full due to agent retrying failed attachements (Re : INSTANA-I-1077)

Although INSTANA-I-1077 has become "Not under consideration", we'd like you to reconsider by checking our new comment (explanation on our purpose of the request). Thanks. "Hi, Henning. Thank you for your time for INSTANA-I-1077. Before you close t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Length of object

The limit on the length of object. This is the list of length TWSD Object LengthJOB 40login 47workstation 16jobstream 16resource 8user 47calendar 8vartable 80varname 16workstation class 16workload application template 80RunCycle group 40
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

sort of job into a jobstream on DWC

Hi When you define jobs into DWC they are always presented into the order you define them and when you want to reorganize them into a logical order or sort the job by name or by any field you cannot.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Restricting/Disable un-used ObjectServer Fields from WebGUI Event viewer double click

When we double click an event from WebGUI event viewer, we are seeing all the Omnibus fields and most of the fields are empty and not required for the NOC team. Customer is interested to see only the important or required columns when they double ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Adding "Tags" column to the export of "All Actions - Executed" widget

This is especially useful in praising app owners / teams who execute actions week over week. Just how we've included tags as a column in our pending actions to help pinpoint which teams have actions that need to be taken, it makes sense to incorpo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Functionality already exists

how to correlate the temporal and seasonality alarms separately

We have lots of alarms with a very high tally count. Various alarms include heartbeat, keepalive etc. Watson should distinguish between the temporal and seasonality grouping. The correlated group should freeze after some time, and shouldn't includ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Maintenance mode - No CI validation

You can easily add CI to maintenance mode Editor , but there is no validation check that the Ci exists. Example: Microsemi has quotes in Hostname “hostname”.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Export to excel option not available in Event console

You can copy/paste events into an excel, but NOC requests enhancement for the export feature to be added.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

What’s needed: Root Cause Analysis is provided at the same time some delay is detected (applicable for Aurora MySQL & RDS).

[Ideal Analysis Function] What we’d like to request you is to add a function of analysis which is able to show the detection of some delay and its root cause at the same time (I.e. : root cause clarification at the same time of the delay detection...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 4 Not under consideration