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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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IWS/IWA distributed engine improved variable management

The customer that is an historical IWS for z/OS client is implementing their first distributed engine environment. During this implementation they discovered that the IWS distributed engine does not provide a common variable management between the...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Netcool Omnibus Object Server User Repository-Password enforcement policy

Our customer is using Omnibus object server as user repository. And wants to implement the following password enforcement policies.1. Password history should be enforced for last 4 passwords not to be permitted.2. Application should enforce passwo...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

Request for sensor for discovering MQ-applications (on IBM MQ-appliances)

We use the MQ-sensor for discovering MQ on midrange platform (AIX, Linux, Windows) in our organization.
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7750 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7750 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to unavailability of ITNCM drivers
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7450 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7450 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to unavailability of ITNCM drivers
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

ITNCM Driver for Alcatel Switch 7210 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7210 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to inavailablity of ITNCM drivers
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

Create alternative container rightsizing action execution to directly update pod resource

The idea is mimc vertical pod autoscaler (VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler) initial mode. "Initial": VPA only assigns resource requests on pod creation and never changes them later. This is just anot...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

The ability to configure a schedule in our policy CR

For resizing operations (vertical scaling) our users are going to want to control when automatic actions are applied. Via the UI I do see an option to create a policy schedule.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Use the same Channel/Subscription model for apps running in VM-based infra too

MCM and the coming RH ACM are both container friendly solutions, which bring in a unified and simplified Channel/Subscription model to deploy and manage applications within managed Kubernetes clusters across cloud providers. But the vision of CP4M...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Planned for future release

SevOne DI application if installed on physical appliance may need 'ipmitool' installed as well.

Similar to NMS application, which has 'ipmitool' preinstalled the DI also needs this tool if installed on physical appliance. If someone tries to install it afterwards it fails due to dependency.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration