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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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Improve Observe environments in the MCM console by adding two more views

Include Cloud Pak Administration Hub and Grafana under Observe environments in the hamburger menu. For Grafana , we will need to include some out of the box meaningful dashboards. In 2.2, we should use Thanos to create richer custom dashboards to ...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Infrastructure metrics in custom dashboards

The customer would like to create views on infrastructure. To be able to do so we would need to configure views also infrastructure e.g. aws ec2 rds hostsUse case would be: As an operational team we would like to build customize metrics dashb...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

KAFKA Message Bus Gateway Compression Feature

Our team wants to enable compression feature in KAFKA Message bus Gateway as part of an ongoing project.The current KAFKA MessageBus gateway version installed in the ObjectServer is 11.The requirement was to set compression type as lz4 so that it ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Remove subject from email template

As a Operation lead, I want to be able to create a email template as minimal as possible. Goal is to send only the essential message to a user device by removing the subject field.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Document statistics schema between versions

Currently the historical statistical data can only be upgraded in a single pass, and there is no way to selectively transfer statistical data for specific workstations, which is required if a customer performs an upgrade in separate, multiple phas...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to view BOTH in and out traffic on same graph

The current netflow graph requires the user to select either inbound or outbound traffic. It would be more useful to be able to view both in and out bound traffic in a single view for an interface rather than requiring the user to select one and t...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Gateway store and forward with TCP

SNMP gateway while using TCP to transfer events from objectserver to the destination should support store and forward. If TCP destination is not available , gateway should store events an send them once destination is available .
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

ncp_gis ability to zoom-in and zoom-out by using mouse scroll-wheel similar to Google Maps

Currently ncp_gis tool uses double-click to zoom in into the maps, specially when Regional aggregation is enabled, due to the number of devices a given region can have, and that ncp_gis does not give any feedback wether or not is working, it is re...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Multi-arch Services

a single service with a list of supported architectures instead of having one service for each supported architecture
about 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 1 Future consideration

Notice link on ITNCM login page

A link required on ITNCM login page, where administrator can add messages on backend like ITNCM outage timings, client Java requirements etc.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration