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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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Augmented reality in online shopping

Augmented reality in online shopping: Suprxr helps you to save time and money using augmented reality online shopping by creating AR showcase of products.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add the Old Values for changes in the Action Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure. This is a requirement for PCI DSS Compliance.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Micrometer metrics for JVMs running on Fargate

Most of the JVM monitoring capabilities work on Fargate. For some reason though, Micrometer support is not part of it.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

J9 AppDynamics Accelerator for Predictive Insights

Predictive Insights J9 Accelerator for AppDynamics: When connecting to the AppDynamics controller on a scheduled query (example every 5 minutes) we need to control retries when connecting. If we cannot connect on the first attempt we must be able ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

APM WebLogic Agent Transaction tracking to include "GridLink" DataSources

Currently Transaction tracking by WebLogic Agent doesn't support to monitor "GridLink" datasources and is limited to show only Generic datasources in JDBC Connections. Customers are intrested to get details w.r.t GridLink too.
over 2 years ago in Instana 3 Not under consideration

ITNM | creating high level map for network devices located on different locations

we need to have the feature in ITNM GUI to create a map for the network devices so that they could be represented with high level view based on their region/area or POP. where user can view the topology and see the (WAN) connections between differ...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Resource state at node start time

The original state of a resource (when a node first comes online or a domain comes online) is treated differently to a monitor command returning 0 (unknown) or a monitor timing out.With this running resources are stopped, whenthere is a dependency...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

To show the schedule details as soon as we place the cursor on the Job definition in the TWS DB

To show the schedule details as soon as we place the cursor on the Job definition in the TWS Database
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Proactive notification/forecast of a job run in plan soon after creation/schedule

Need a proactive notification/forecast of how a job will run in plan as soon as it is created/changed in the database. e.g. If we are scheduling a 5 mins recurring job by just setting a Start Time as 05:00 GMT (without any carryforward/Until optio...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Driver request for Cisco WLAN Controller network device

This is a request to add support / functionality of SDN devices, specifically Cisco WLAN Controller devices. This would mean we would have a driver for CM that would allow us to perfom common UoW tasks for these type of devices.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration