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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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Copy job logs

On a job creation (e.g. executable type), under environment tab we have , Standard input, Standard output, Standard error. This capabilities allows to provide a path to send the joblog. Allthough for job types like "SAP JOB ON DYNAMIC WORKSTATIONS...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

DWC: enhance graphical features for successors/pre-decessors

In DWC we have graphical capabilities to present pre-decessors and successors for IWS applications. The graphical view makes it much easier to get the proper insight in the structure of the applications.However, the graphical view for successors i...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Enable SSL on Objectserver IDUC port

IDUC traffic is not secure. Currently Objectserver IDUC port listening parameter only give possibility to set port number, without SSL. It should be option the same as objectserver port (4101 SSL) for IDUC communcation
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Bank of America looking for the ability for SevOne to be able to alert on and collect string OIDs

The customer is looking to alert on several different OIDs which produce data of type string. Their use case is as they move from their old monitoring platform some vendors only offer specific OIDs in string form. (For example HA state with fortin...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Show amount of members in a stack

View the number of members of a stack in the display windowStackable switches (up to 8 members in a stack)2960X, 2960S, 2960XR of 2960 series3850 series3650 series9000 series #show switchSwitch/Stack Mac Address : H/W CurrentSwitch# Role Mac Addre...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ITNM Discovery Improvement for FULL And PARTIAL

Can we have Dual discovery or much controlled and customised discovery modes: main aim is to reduce long discovery times here. For Ex. what we are looking for is described below: Let us say we have seed based control not using scope based: [two se...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration