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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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API Support to NCM Compliance Component

NCM's REST API doesn't support the compliance part of the tool. From an NCM perspective, the REST API only works with the "worker" side of the product.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

MCM Cassandra , increase trace retention to 4 days

Our customer from CE needs the retention data of application traces to be 4 days , instead of default 2 days. We understood this is hardcoded in Cassnadra but can not be changed / configured. We are using OCP 4.10.43 + MCM 2.3.28(FP6) TS011304665
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

sort of job into a jobstream on DWC

Hi When you define jobs into DWC they are always presented into the order you define them and when you want to reorganize them into a logical order or sort the job by name or by any field you cannot.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

The product should cater for duplicate SNMP Labels across MIBs

Description: Allow ITNM to handle duplicate SNMP Labels across multiple MIBs.We have two MIB files that both contain the same Labels (difference equipment models).In order to get the Poller, MIB Browser and MIB Graph tools to work for this equipme...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Polling can't be done in the console

Currently ITNM is not used for performance polling and SNMP polling is not in scope and the topology is only used for discovery purpose.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Capability to add and populate custom field on device via UI as supposed to using backend stitcher

Looking for capability to add and populate custom field or attribute to device via UI. Currently we use backend stitcher and customization to add new custom field or attribute.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Unable to login to more than 1 environment at once

Cannot login to Watson-DEV if already logged into Watson-UAT and vice versa
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

instana-console (docker) delete licenses

Currently instana console allows download, import and verify. We have had issues where a license needed to be deleted from instana, and we achieved this by manually deleting this from the cockroach DB.It would be great if a new flag was added to i...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Default MSL *LINUX_SYSTEMS should segregate the rhel 7 & 8 versions.

There are certain process which are different in rhel7 & rhel8 so while creating situaiton for these process monitoring it is difficult to separate the OS versions. and it will be huge effort in larger environment to manually creating separate...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration