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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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DWC 9.4 - Critical network jobs divided by status

To be able to view all critical jobs that are running, completed or in error by allowing to set a parm to display this info before a certain input arrival date.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

DWC View Efficiencies

There are multiple DWC queries required for my Operations team to use each shift. We recently migrated to Workload Automation 9.5 and find it inefficient to manually run each query at the top of every shift (e.g.: All Workstations in plan, All Job...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

Need to specify acceptable cipher suites in ssl handshake for Message Bus Probe

We would like to use the Message bus probe to accept alert info from an externally hosted service. Our corporate network team specifies 6 ssl cipher suites as acceptable for externally accessible urls. We would like to be able to specify the list ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Netcool ObjectServer REST HTTP enhancement to support OAUTH with Kerberos

This request is to update/enhance the authentication methods used by the ObjectServer HTTP/HTTPS REST API from basic http auth to using industry standard OAUTH this would allow for the usage of Kerberos keys reducing the need for passing passwords...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

DWC searching job stream by job returns results for job stream with start condition monitor jobs

Currently, DWC searching job stream by job does not return results for job stream with start condition monitor jobs.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add default GC parameters on Mark as Golden

ITNCM should have a facility to add all GC parameters @@@regex@@@, P@, .@ with default values on that configuration when click on Make Golden
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

APM agent for MQ Appliance should monitor Hardware too

We are using massively MQ Appliance but the last version of agent is not complete because it doesn't show information about MQ Appliance Hardware
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 3 Not under consideration

Substring broker function

Implement a broker substring function so that parts of a variable can be used in job definitions. This feature is available on all competitive products. F.e. ${substring:MYVAR,1,10} Get the first 10 characters of the variable MYVAR.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

composer jobstream output no longer readable starting from 9.4

Jobstream output from composer uses 2 line returns instead of 1 between jobstreams and jobs, This has 2 negative impacts: 1. It is much less readable. To make output readable just change font or screensize or use DWC graphical views. 2. It takes u...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Juniper's modules not supported

kindly we need your support to apply these modules for the juniper vendor as we have a lot of devices for these modules at our network that we want to cover, and the modules as shown below:ex4500-40fm320t4000m10iex4200-24tm7iex3200-24tex4200-48tex...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration