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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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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

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.
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Scrolling API support for Message Bus probe

The only method available in MCP R4.0 to handle an alarm query which returns results greater than 10,000 records is to utilise the scrolling capability.The current version (10) of the Message Bus supports pagination - however there is a restrictio...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Not under 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

Display VMware hierarchy in Data Management Tool

Our users want to explore from Virtual Machine to ESX host and/or VMware cluster to VMwar Data Center to Virtual Center managing environment. Currently there is no link from ESX server to clusters or to Virtual Center.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under 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

#cpfield Improving the performance of API connections between Turbonomic and Azure Plan API.

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic supports Azure Plan API, but the customer says the response is too late. The customer is consi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Not under consideration

License Compliance for Cloud Pak for Automation for Prod and Non-Prod env based on entitlement ratios

So, License Compliance advisor needs to provide the compliance status based on the below deployment criteria: Prod vs Non-Prod: : Cloud Pak for Automation is charged differently for production vs non-product environments. Also there are so...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Instrument Sangria GraphQL library

We use the sangria library to expose a graphql server written in Scala, running on the JVM. We would like to be able to use Instana to see the details of the graphql call, similar to how Instana can instrument other graphql libraries.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Update batch reports CLI to not require full access to the database

We began piloting the command line reporting function for TWS and, through the support ticket noted, found out that in order for CLI reports to work with an Oracle database, the CLI must be granted access to the TWS object owner account. This is i...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release