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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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Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Runcycle offset, extended math

Allow offsets of runcycles to be layered, as in recursive. Starting from a runcycle frequency statement or calendar, allow it to be nested inside offsets by day, weekdays, workdays, other runcycle frequencies or calendars. For example, to run on t...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Cancelation of WebSphere batch job (wsgrid.bat) on Windows should invoke shutdown hook i java

Cancelling a WebSphere Batch job on Windows, a java.exe process started from the wsgrid.bat only kills the java process. The shutdown hook in java is not called and the job/step i the websphere bacth container is not interrupted/stopped. This is "...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

TWS Job Auto ReRun Alerting - Upon a rerun event rules action TEC notification even if second instance is successful

Job Auto Re-Run is used to solve a problem where jobs will usually complete on the second iteration. For this to be a fully functional tool we need an option to only generate a TEC notification when both auto run attempts have failed. Currently al...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Composer - Auto removal of the "FOLLOWS" dependency

When we delete a job from the database, Composer also deletes any "FOLLOWS" dependency objects from internetwork dependency jobstreams. Without warning or informing the Analyst. I know this is working as designed .. BUT it would be useful just to ...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

sort on columns - views/tasks

TDWC 9.3 : is it possible to save the "ORDER clause" for each view/task, so that we don't need to re-enter after each logoff/login the order direction for the columns in our views/tasks ? reponse IBM : Hi Mike, I must confirm that, as I already me...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Conman submit using alias does not honor TWS Security.conf rules. Request to force alias name to comply with security.

When using conman to submit a schedule or job with the alias keyword, users are allowed to name the schedule in a way that does not honor the Security.conf rules. This creates a situation where the user will be unable to manipulate the schedule on...
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Option to switch off tool tip (auto pop up information) in AM Dash

The automatic pop up of the tool tip window(s) in the AM views is extremely annoying, especially if operators work from homewith smaller displays i.e. on notebook computers. It always overlays just the expan button as wel as menus they want to sel...
about 9 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement for disabling r3jobdetails log under stdlist

Indivudual r3jobdetails are created for every single execution of SAP job. This creates a additional usage space and we are finally ending up with cleaning these logs to free the space. Sometimes, if we miss FS will grow more than 90% or even can ...
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Functionality already exists

TDWC - need to have a notepad like functionality to edit scheduling objects

We currently use TWS WebAdmin from Segus as our GUI. Their product has a functionality known as text edit mode. You can select a database object from a filtered view then click the text edit function. A notepad like text edit window appears with t...
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration