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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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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

Event Viewer sort order should be independant of the language set in the browser.

While viewing event viewer tables in different browsers it was found that the events were ordered differently depending on the browser languages. This resulted in different events being givent different priorities. The request would be for the eve...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Remove excessive or unwanted StatsD metrics from the Instana

The customer wants to remove xbroker related metrics and has stopped the script which pushes these values to Instana. So they can see just metric names and not the value. They want to remove these names also from Instana
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Display sort for Grouping in Event Viewer

The current OMNIbus WebGUI Event Viewer does not allow you to sort the grouping panel/tree. It is fixed to sort only by the number of events. I would like to have the ability to sort by other fields, such as Location.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

A column for Operator Instructions is needed in DWC

Need an immutable field (as in panel ID EQQSOPSP option 7 OPERATOR INSTR - Operator instructions) for Operator Instructions.
almost 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

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

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

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