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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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Enhanced Placement Rules

Allow for additional inputs into the placement rules. For example: cost of resources within a cluster, network latency of a cluster (ex: edge vs central cloud), networking capacity between locations, cluster hardware capabilities (CPU pinning, GPU...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced Visibility of Deployed Application Versions.

Update the topology, application, and/or overview screens in MCM to more effectively see what release(s) of applications are deployed to which clusters. These views should be consumable even when there are 100s of clusters and support grouping by ...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

More control for application updates at scale

When doing an application update (such as from v1.0 to v1.1) for multiple Deployables each deployed in their own cluster, the customer needs more control over how those upgrades are performed. The ability to do a canary deployment (upgrade just on...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Rolling upgrades for a single Deployable

When doing an application update (such as from v1.0 to v1.1) for a single Deployable, MCM should support Kubernetes rolling upgrades for each service in the application so that the application can be upgraded with zero downtime. Our understanding ...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Future consideration

add feature so that jobs in USERJOBS can trigger events for total duration

There is a significant portion of jobs that get placed into USERJOBS that are hung. We need a way to trigger events for total duration of the job, such as at 24h duration, or 72h duration. Currently there are 2 limitations in TWS that are preventi...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Configuring multiple devices using IDT

Network Operation Team currently configure multiple devices using scripts that use direct CLI connections to the devices.Weneed to modify these scripts to use IDT connections to the devices. However IDT can only connect to one device at a time. We...
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Oracle Exacc Discovery enablement

We are not able to enable TADDM discovery for oracle Exacc in the current version of TADDM 7.3 FP3 . Could you please kindly build a new customized oracle Exacc sensor which helps us to enable the discovery for the same.
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Omegamon Agent Situational Action Origination Point

In an environment with multiple TEM Servers the agents don't have the option to choose which TEMS will use the action item for a Situational Action. It defaults to the TEMS the agent reports directly to. In my environment I have a TEMS on z/OS and...
almost 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Not under consideration

kerberos support for iws agent windows userids

Provide support for kerberized windows userids for IWS. Currently we have to create the userid and password on IWSz and the passwords are entered in plain text.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Create an Ansible Playbook that collects compliance evidence from the system.

Use Ansible Automation to built a Playbook that collects the evidence for compliance.
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration