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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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Set different thresholds for different interfaces

NPI supports setting a threshold value for a metric that will result in an Alarm raised when that threshold is crossed. This allows to take an action when the system is degraded. Current implementation allows to set a threshold value for each metr...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

NPI Restoration Blueprint

It is not possible to backup the installation just by copying the folders, because most of the services are installed as OS level service. we can use below options:1. Backup the VM of all the NPI nodes. (should stop all services including Hadoop &...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Possibility of reduce traffic for MongoDB Agent

We have problem with our MongoDB Dba as the Mongo Db Application Performance Management Agent is producing too much traffic on mongos servers We should be able to reduce the traffic MongoDB agent tries to connect (to required host and port) in eve...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Have IWS Support PostgreSQL database

Have IWS support the PostgreSQL database.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DB trigger syntax. Not updating field if it already contains string which is to be added

We have customized DB trigger to deduplicate events from multiple config items into one "master" event.To keep track of the config items for which problem was triggered. We have custom field "TsSMFIDList" where all config items are being added as ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TLS 1.3 support for nco-p-socket-java probe

We need the ability for the nco-p-socket-java probe to support the SSL version TLS 1.3. Unfortunately the current version supports only TLS 1.0 or maybe TLS 1.2 if you use a external java. TLS 1.2 isn't state of the art.We need a probe binary that...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Handling of jobstream submissions during switchplan

During the execution of the switchplan sometimes the submit of jobstreams fails. The reason is obviuous: the Symphony file is being created at this moment and the submission cannot be handled therefore. Currently users must prevent this from happe...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Custom Template Sensor - executeCommandWithTimeout (may) block if standard input is not redirected from a file

The executeCommandWithTimeout command (may) block if standard input is not redirected from a file. The command we are executing does not as far as I can tell read from standard input, so I don't really understand why this is happening). We redirec...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Is a defect

Custom Template Sensor - executeCommandWithTimeout does not handle standard error

The jython executeCommandWithTimeout does not handle standard error. We had to redirect stderr to stdout to see anything written on stderr. The output on stderr should be logged by default.
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

New variable tws.job.runcount

The variable tws.job.runcount should contain the number of reruns of a job. A job runs the first time after it's ordered the variable contains a 1. After a rerun (automatic or manually) it contains a 2. Next rerun a 3 and so on.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release