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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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Silent Installation/Migration method as alternative to installSAM

If you install or update TSAMP today, you do this via installSAM. installSAM not just installs packages, it also sets configs based on the current system configuration, e.g. set java path.If you want to automate the installation, e.g. to perform i...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Search function and multiple selection for Nodes

With the new UI multiple selection for resources is available. For nodes it's currently not provided. The "node view" should be enhanced by this function for nodes, so you can select several nodes and e.g. exclude them all by 1 click.
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

TDWC EXTERNAL PREDS ISSUE

When trying to add a external predecessor via the TDWC you need to use the application's full name. Need additional Job-Name filter to select explicit job(s) as external predecessor dependency. Like ABC123P%. We need you to provide the ability to...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Functionality already exists

TDWC current plan add issues

 When adding an application into the current plan VIA the TDWC there is no way of changing the jobs in the app. For example- if you need to change a workstation we can't as it don't list the jobs in the app when doing the add operation. Also  Yo...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Unable to do Simple Job Restart with TDWC

When using the TDWC we should have the options of simple job restart in the drop down menu for job recovery processing. Only have fast restart available. this is essentially procedural as we can “ready” the job as such there is a viable work aroun...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Flag to avoid using login credentials from System Properties

Flag to avoid UOW considering login credentials from System Properties
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Loader (And Gateway) elasticity to deal with increased in data volume

TNPM. Currently Loaders (and Gateways) can deal with data backlog though backup instances that have been pre-configured. This request is to have Loader (And Gateway) elasticity to automatically and dynamically deal with unexpected increases or bac...
about 11 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 3 Not under consideration

ITNCM compliance- a way to tell which extractions are called by which definitions

We want to be able to see which Extractions are called by the Policies, Rules and Definitions - so that we know which ones to copy to the production system. It looks like the only way to do this is to open each individual Definition to see if it c...
about 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Up-issuing a Definition should automatically up-issue any Rule and/or Policy which calls it

ITNCM Compliance manager has a feature whereby once you "activate" a Policy, Rule, or Definition - the version number of that Policy, Rule or Definition is automatically incremented whenever it is edited. It is normal to have each Policy call one ...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

For AAA SmartModel in ITNCM-Base not matching SmartModel in ITNCM-Compliance.

aaa authorization commands 15 default group tacacs+ appears to be modelled in the driver but when using the "create a new definition" wizard only the following is available aaa authorization commands 15 similarly aaa accounting network default sta...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration