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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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Smart Model support for Cisco 4500, 4503, 4506, 4507R, 4510R to support IOS 17.*

Smart Model support for Cisco 4500, 4503, 4506, 4507R, 4510R to support IOS 17.*
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

do not send sms after closed event

When an event is closed, CEM sends an SMS with the information that is is now closed. WE have no use for that information but we cannot edit it. Either make the default behavior "do not send SMS after closing event"or give us the option in the too...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

A probe for AWS Kinesis Data Streams

As of now there is a Message Bus probe that can connect to AWS through webhooks. It would be useful to have a probe or similar function to connect to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in a streamlined way (a built in consumer function).
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To explore SSL connection capability from Netcool Impact to Oracle DataSources

Hi Team, In our project we have made many data base connections to connect impact to respective DB and fetch data or perform some other activity using impact policy. Recently vendor has done some audits and identified some vulnerability and asked ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Navigate with context to Events window.

from AP dashboards allow navigation directly to events with event.application/service/endpoint.name populated.
over 3 years ago in Instana 4 Not under consideration

Enhance 'Takeover' process in IBM Workload Manager

The 'Hot Standby' process for the Controller needs to be enhanced to allow for a very high availability environment. Specifically the 'TAKEOVER' command should be enhanced so that it functions when there is already an active Controller.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide GUI for polling confirmation

Add a GUI option to display which poll definitions and policies apply to a given device or set of devices.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Provide enumeration lookup from within poll definitions

Provide an enumeration lookup from within the Event Summary of a poll definition to convert integer values into meaningful text.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

GUI for restarting processes

Provide a GUI to restart ITNM processes. This would be helpful for kill -USR, kill -HUP, and starting failed processes.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Limits by combining multiple job streams

Today we can set limits at Workstation level and Job Stream Level. However if we have to have a combined sub limit for multiple job streams, it is hard to achieve. Requirement is for grouping of job streams and setting a limit on them.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists