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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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Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

SELinux support for Netcool Omnibus on RHEL8

The default configuration of SELinux on RHEL8 is set to 'enforced'. During a Netcool Omnibus 8.1 installation on RHEL8, we noticed that the installation as such was fine, the ObjectServer and probes also were running. BUT, the nco start-up scripts...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Device discovery using traps

The ask if for the capability to perform a device discovery from the trap received by the NMS. In addition to the existing discovery methods available, the NMS should have the capability to add the device if not already added if a trap is received...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

DWC - Filters Improvements

We have more than one team that manages the production environment and in most of the time each team takes care of a group of applications running under IWS. Using standards for Job, JobStream and Resource names we managed to create filters that c...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Concatenation of variable is translating to Password

Hi IWA Team, I had a requirement to put the password as a concatenated variable and migrate the code to next instance. I have created the composer file for 100 jobs and in password section i have added ${password.key1}${password.key1} Then i used ...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Character Limitation on Variable length for a variable in Variable table.

Hi IWA team, We had a requirement where the parameter was more than 1500 character. We were not able to use the variable since there is limitation of 1025 characters, Could you please remove this limitation? Regards Lochan
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Simplify ACL/SDOM management with IWS >9.5

Hello, Currently we use SDOM structure to limit our applicative manager to their application and to force norm usage. For exemple - For Job name: 3 characters for application code (CCX) 1 character for job type (one of these 3 letters XTM) 1 chara...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 9 Future consideration

Tellabs Probe to fetch alarms from EMS through Authentication

Tellabs Probe doesnt support Authentication (Username/Password) properties. Customer EMS allows to fetch alarms only based on credentials.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Dynamically SNMP Credentials change acceptance

Enhancement request in processing dynamically SNMP Credentials change(made to SnmpStackSecurityInfo.cfg via CLI/GUI) by ITNM and minimize downtime of Monitoring via Poller processes. Keeping, new security policies in mind, would required this func...
7 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

NameSpace, Node Label Group Tag & AppCat Tags: Reports

Need to have Tag columns in the NameSpace widget view and downloaded spreadsheet view to be able to sort capacity by Node Label Group tag & by AppCat tag. Otherwise this is a tedious process to show the total AppCat's NameSpace Usage by Node L...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration