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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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Improved monitoring of TNPM

Improved monitoring of TNPM data processing. Monitoring via ITM of all data processing should be available (including summaries and BHs), partition maintenance etc.
over 11 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 3 Not under consideration

search functionality of a multi-paged device configuration

can we enable the functionality of searching a multi-paged device configuration in a single go which is currently unvailable
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

compliance - hide View Native Config and View Modelled config

We need to be able to create user account(s) with minimal permissions purely for Reporting access for a single Realm. We have been able to do this for Configuration Manager GUI by creating a security set which prevents the user from seeing the dev...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration

Predictive Insights Oracle Support

We are not a DB2 shop. Would need support for Predictive Insights running on an Oracle back end
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Not under consideration

UI required for Filtered Alarms

Need a UI based filtered alarms. This would be much simpler than allowing all users to touch the back end where its prone to error. IN the case of Fannie Mae its already happened where a user added a filter and made a typo and the streams process ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Predictive Insights Distributed Startup Scripts

Need startup scripts in /etc/init.d and chkconfig or /etc/systemd/system/myservicename.service
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

World Writable Files not allowed

Predictive Insights produces world writable files in PI_HOME/var/spool/topics// This is not allowed for security reasons. This should be OOB settings.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Meaning of Unknown for Shadow-Resources should be available

Currentlywhen all its members had been failed or unknown shadow equivalencies are considered as offline.It should be considered online to prevent complete service down-times.
over 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

System Summary Report Per Topic

Summary report on the System total nodes, metrics, metric groups, KPI's per metric group etc etc
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Custom SQL Query Capability

Require capability to perform SQL queries on a database once connected as part of mediation. This would include Joins, Filters, Math Calculations + much more
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Not under consideration