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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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Distinguish between ignored/unused/future-enhancement and optional fields in REST API

Improve REST API documentation so fields that are actually ignored, currently unused, or reserved for future enhancements are marked as such, and not as "optional". Optional fields imply that when users choose the option to use them, they have an ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Global NewCo Requirement - NOI - Flexible service ids names

As part of the NewCo Event Mgmt strategy, we're creating a NOI Hybrid deployment where new components are hosted on IBM Cloud ROKS and OnPrem on Linux VMs We will have multiple instances of NOI deployed across the globe and all of them will need t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

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

request driver for ADVA XG304 and XG308

TELUS customer request to have new devices add into ITNCM, which request new supported driver for this VTMOS. Please let us know if ITNCM support this production or if any new drivers development needed. looking to onboard two new devices for Inte...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 4 Planned for future release

Count Status Details instead of Status when add widget Job count by status with Held job and Widget Type "KPI"

When we use widget Job count by status with Held job and Widget Type "KPI", the outer number is 1 but when I drill through, there are 4 entries. It means the outer number is counting Status but the inner one is counting the Status Details So we ne...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

To increase the character limit of Job name attribute in ITCAM MQ MFT agent

Need to increase the character limit of Job name attribute in ITCAM MQ MFT agent.As per PMR #TS004515520 update, We checked the application support file of teps and it is a limitation of attribute since the attribute length is defined as 32.*OBJEC...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

Alignment to industry standards RFC1123 for host lenght name

A change has been applied to the IT industry standard for host name lengthThe syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952.Host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a let...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Disable task sharing option in IDWC

In Dynamic Workload Console 9.5 users are able to query the current plan by selecting the menu "Monitoring & Reporting > Monitor Workload".Users can also save their queries for later use and share them with other users. While sharing a spec...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Planned for future release

KAFKA Message Bus Gateway Compression Feature

Our team wants to enable compression feature in KAFKA Message bus Gateway as part of an ongoing project.The current KAFKA MessageBus gateway version installed in the ObjectServer is 11.The requirement was to set compression type as lz4 so that it ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release