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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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Improvements for state "Stuck Online"

Today, we have very limited possibilities to operate a resource with state "stuck online". There are two functions that should be improved:1. a resource stays in "stuck online" if the stop request is canceled and the desired state isn't "offline" ...
about 13 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Please remove case matching for username, in ITNCM

Please remove case matching for username, in external (i.e. LDAP, TACACS, etc.) and internal (ITNCM) authentication for the ITNCM application and Reporting. Customer has requested this. In their environment, the ITNCM authentication is from RADIUS...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

In case of Timeout JRExecAction is retrying to execute the command. We need to disable Retry behavior

Dear IBM Support Team, Please find below description about the scenario we have executed in IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact 7.1 1) We executed below code in our Impact Policy and our observation from nci_jrexec.log file is, when Timeout occurs (based ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Is a defect

passing File name with job as paramater to the job script , Job should take name of the file which is getting satisfy using file base dependency

we have event base scheduling to pass file name, where name of the fill will be the file which is getting satisfy with file dependency but here problme is FTA is dependent on Master for event part. Instead of this if we can pass file name in norma...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

RFE TWS for asynchronous Restful plugin

It is necessary to make restful calls asynchronous to avoid active connections for a long time (with polling or webhook or other)
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

DASH Pages access like WebPage of WebServer without Authentication or Authorisation

Team, The main purpose of DASHBoarding / Reporting with all fancy stuff like widgets and other aspects is to provide some one page output to Executive or Management Also to display in TV / Wall Screen like Kiosk run 24/7 We are sure that no actual...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To be able to delete the final WebGUI Filter in a group or user in WebGUI

At the moment it is not possible to remove the final filter from a user or group through the WebGUI. This is a limitation that some customers would like removed. Administrators would be able to remove all filters from a user or group through the W...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Liberty Core: Implement federated repositories

We implemented OIDC using Liberty Core on Netcool/Impact application for Google Authentication. But then the VMM based user failed to access, because it is not possible to use both locally defined user and also oauth google user at the same time. ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

IWS9.x event rule's human-readable date/time variables display as yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ/tz; expecting month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss

In TWS 8.6, when using any event rule human-readable variables that display date/time, the date/time is presented in this format: month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM timezone Thus TWS 8.6 the presentation looks like:April 23, 2018 6:37:00 AM CDT In IWS ...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add Extended job name to the EQQE036I message

Currently the EQQ message does not contain the extended job name for distributed jobs in an E2E environment
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration