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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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Netcool Omnibus support for passwords longer than 32 char

As part of expanded password complexity, the ObjectServer mid layer Sybase needs to be updated to support increased password lengths greater than 32 char. This will allow for stronger complexity and greater resistance to intrusion attempts.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Officially support iCAM agent playbooks on IBM Z platform using the Ansible Tower Automation using the underlying Ansible Engine Framework

Description:  following tasks can be created for iCAM playbooks for IBM z platform through the management node * Uninstall ICAM Agent * Install ICAM Agent (Copy the image from ansible host, untar it, install it) * Upgrade ICAM Agent&nbs...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Officially support iCAM agent playbooks to AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.x

Based on discussions with Brenda Christopher and Keyuri Patel, the following iCAM playbooks exist and currently only officially support xLinux endpoints: Uninstall ICAM Agent Install ICAM Agent (Copy the image from ansible host, untar it, install ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Reporting capability that can be scheduled on NPI

Looking for capability to generate report via scheduler on NPI on NetFlow, QoS and SNMP monitoring. Currently there is no way to auto generate report on scheduler and send it to multiple recipient on regular basis. TNCP already supports. This can ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

NPI. QoS report capability (for specific device group)

Looking for capability to report QoS on specific device. (This is supported today in TNCP) Group devices on some QoS KPI like drop queue, discard queue and network utilization on qos policy (Future consideration). Capability to generate PDF report...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Option to switch off tool tip (auto pop up information) in AM Dash

The automatic pop up of the tool tip window(s) in the AM views is extremely annoying, especially if operators work from homewith smaller displays i.e. on notebook computers. It always overlays just the expan button as wel as menus they want to sel...
about 9 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

TDWC - need to have a notepad like functionality to edit scheduling objects

We currently use TWS WebAdmin from Segus as our GUI. Their product has a functionality known as text edit mode. You can select a database object from a filtered view then click the text edit function. A notepad like text edit window appears with t...
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

NCP_GIS configuration deleted after Fixpack installation

NCP_GIS (config.json) configuration is deleted and replaced with default one once fixpack is installed. Automatic configuration backup should handled by fixpack installation process.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

New feature TDWC 9.2 for submittal of a Job Stream from Stream definition need ability to adjust properties before submitting

New feature TDWC 9.2 allows for submittal of a Job Stream from Stream definition needs ability to adjust properties before submitting.The new feature in the TDWC 9.2 that allows for submittal of a Job Streams into the plan from the Stream definiti...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Enhanced Placement Rules

Allow for additional inputs into the placement rules. For example: cost of resources within a cluster, network latency of a cluster (ex: edge vs central cloud), networking capacity between locations, cluster hardware capabilities (CPU pinning, GPU...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration