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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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Feature to set the limit based on the number of failed attachments (Instana)

[How it is now] When an agent fails to execute its attachment (attachment error in occurrence of some event such as full GC), the agent continues to retry the attachment every 10 minutes repeatedly until it succeeds. [What's needed] It'd be great ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

new field to monitor jobs on the plan

Create a new editable column on DWC (E.g. Monitor Job/ Jobstream) where operators and users are able to edit and put notes for each job. Today similar functionally exists on TWS/z, field "Operation Text" where it can be informed some description.
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

src stops too early at system shutdown / reboot

during shutdown a linux server we want to exclude the node using /etc/init.d/rcx.. scripts but src was killed as soon as shutdown begins so we have no chance to stop our applications before.
about 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 5 Not under consideration

Enhance RUNCYCLE EXCEPT Logic

Currently RUNCYCLE EXCEPT will prevent a job stream from running on a specific day (defined by calendar or any other means.) We would like the EXCEPT to optionally shift the run date to the next working day (or previous working day) In other words...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Capability to create custom roles in addition to the available standard roles

ICP is missing custom role creation option as per APIC 2018.4.1.0. It will give admins the flexibility to create the purposely build custom roles to cater the need of individual teams. Example: New role with the standard viewer plus access to the...
about 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists

Excel extract for active report with tabular configurations

We have many reports that are using tabs to separate components of the report. In our use case, we have a single report (parent report) that is comprised of many tabs (child reports). We need the ability to download an individual tab in excel/csv ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Tivoli Configuration Manager - Device Support

Requesting a device driver to be added for the following Cisco router: VTMOS - Cisco/Router/C1111/16.9.5Cisco IOS XE Software, Version 16.09.05 Cisco IOS Software
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 4 Not under consideration

Make MAXDUR/MINDUR available in Job History as are latest start and DEADLINE already present

It is not possible to report on jobs that have exceeded their MAXDUR setting nor those that did not meet their MINDUR setting as this information is not recorded in the TWS database. This request is to include the amount of time the job exceeded t...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration