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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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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.
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Need to create a resource that filter on name of server/workstation when creating dynamic pools

Today we can specify what servers we want in a dynamic pool by making a resourcegroup with those servers. In case your naming standards for servers are setup you should be able to make a logic resource specifying servers in a pool depending on the...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

add feature so that jobs in USERJOBS can trigger events for total duration

There is a significant portion of jobs that get placed into USERJOBS that are hung. We need a way to trigger events for total duration of the job, such as at 24h duration, or 72h duration. Currently there are 2 limitations in TWS that are preventi...
almost 10 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

Omegamon Agent Situational Action Origination Point

In an environment with multiple TEM Servers the agents don't have the option to choose which TEMS will use the action item for a Situational Action. It defaults to the TEMS the agent reports directly to. In my environment I have a TEMS on z/OS and...
about 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Not under consideration

Create an Ansible Playbook that collects compliance evidence from the system.

Use Ansible Automation to built a Playbook that collects the evidence for compliance.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Add automated provisioning of GRC compliance controllers as part of Install of Klusterlet.

Currently, compliance controllers are not installed as part of the cluster install and there is no automated way to install these controllers hence the GRC does not work out of the box and there is no notification on how to fix it.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Create AI Ops capability - Automatic worker node scaling up or down in response to performance issues.

Dynamically Scale up and Down worker nodes base on performance and Cost.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Out of the box automation using Ansible to remediate basic issues found in BoD Environment

Create run-books that can be run out of the box to remediate basic issues found in BoD environment. e.g. restart prometheus at various clusters ( the monitoring not working issue). Restarting Search when it crashes. These can be run manually if ne...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Create policies ( in GRC or other place) to enforce deployment parameters e.g replicas

For production apps, if the deployment does not specify a minimum number of replica ( e.g. 3 or more) then make the deployment have replica =3
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration