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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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Sector Busy Hour

Requirements from customer to have Sector Busy Hour calculation. Using the following small example, where we have the LTE Cells which belong to the same eNodeB “JHRTJML” LTE Cell Name Band Cell ID Sector JHRTJML_103 L26 103 S3 JHRTJML_102 L26 102 ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana where it is easily to debug more in case of db connections increase,load,memory and cpu issues
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Get notification of updates & patches for on-premise installations

A customer running an on-premise installation will never know if there are patches or updates available for their Instana version. What happens if a CVE patch is published? Will Instana notify the customer that they have a vulnerable version and t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

TDWC Workload Designer to integrate validfrom dates on job streams

Integrate job stream valid-from dates into Workload Designer such that all versions of a job stream are all opened and worked with together as one object in the UI. In the Working List the Job Stream would be a tree of valid-from versions. Functio...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

Devices imported from ITNM shouldn't need to autodiscover

When devices are imported via the NMEntityMapper from ITNM the information needed for import is already provided by the API. In many cases the information gathered via snmp by ITNM is either more accurate or the autodiscover driver doesn't gather ...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Performance alarm storage in TNCP database

Currently performance alarms are triggered from threshold configuration in TNCP. However the data of what has been raised, when, etc are not stored. We can only get current snapshot of alarms, not history. Customer has a requirement for a report, ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

DWC - Add ability to have query multiple options or have negative criteria

Add ability to have query multiple options or have negative criteria on monitor workload section of the Dynamic Workload Console.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add Weblogic Name in filter/group fields of custom dashboards

Today the only attribute related to Weblogic Servers (WLS) is the port. It's clearly not enough. Please include server name in the Dynamics Focus search, the filter and group fields in custom dashboards widgets.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Macro to determine subsystem name of the current PIF-session in Cobol

Programms (Cobol) communicating with IWS via PIF and allocated EQQYPARM-file do not have access to the subsystem name. The internal BIB-block stores or point to this data. However this block ist not documented.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enable functionality to ITNM Network Views to add annotations to maps

ability to add annotations to Network View maps
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration