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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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Set different thresholds for different interfaces

NPI supports setting a threshold value for a metric that will result in an Alarm raised when that threshold is crossed. This allows to take an action when the system is degraded. Current implementation allows to set a threshold value for each metr...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

NPI Restoration Blueprint

It is not possible to backup the installation just by copying the folders, because most of the services are installed as OS level service. we can use below options:1. Backup the VM of all the NPI nodes. (should stop all services including Hadoop &...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Possibility of reduce traffic for MongoDB Agent

We have problem with our MongoDB Dba as the Mongo Db Application Performance Management Agent is producing too much traffic on mongos servers We should be able to reduce the traffic MongoDB agent tries to connect (to required host and port) in eve...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Have IWS Support PostgreSQL database

Have IWS support the PostgreSQL database.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DB trigger syntax. Not updating field if it already contains string which is to be added

We have customized DB trigger to deduplicate events from multiple config items into one "master" event.To keep track of the config items for which problem was triggered. We have custom field "TsSMFIDList" where all config items are being added as ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TLS 1.3 support for nco-p-socket-java probe

We need the ability for the nco-p-socket-java probe to support the SSL version TLS 1.3. Unfortunately the current version supports only TLS 1.0 or maybe TLS 1.2 if you use a external java. TLS 1.2 isn't state of the art.We need a probe binary that...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

New variable tws.job.runcount

The variable tws.job.runcount should contain the number of reruns of a job. A job runs the first time after it's ordered the variable contains a 1. After a rerun (automatic or manually) it contains a 2. Next rerun a 3 and so on.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

WebGUI 8.1 : Export to CSV right click tool

Users want to have a right click tool to export all alarms from current event viewer (as per chosen filter) directly to excel/CSV.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

request driver for ADVA XG304 and XG308

TELUS customer request to have new devices add into ITNCM, which request new supported driver for this VTMOS. Please let us know if ITNCM support this production or if any new drivers development needed. looking to onboard two new devices for Inte...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 4 Planned for future release

posteifmsg support for RHEL8 on Power8/9 (ppcle)

This RFE is to request to support RHEL8 Server on Power8/9 (ppcle) for posteifmsg command which may also require the support for EIF SDK .
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration