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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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Change the Network Manager widgets language in Dashboard Application Services Hub

In Dashboard Application Services Hub using a Hungarian language browser on network hop view the search windows are appear in Hungarian language, which often can cause misunderstanding. See attached file.We would like to force all NOI applications...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add default GC parameters on Mark as Golden

ITNCM should have a facility to add all GC parameters @@@regex@@@, P@, .@ with default values on that configuration when click on Make Golden
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

IHS 9.X for Tivoli ITM6.3X TEPS

My company is requiring IHS 9.0 as a minimal version in the firm, there's currently no patch/upgrade available. We are limited to 8.55.X for TEPS.
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

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.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

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

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

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