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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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Compliance Evaluate to pass for both Present and Not Present XPATH

Evaluate to pass the XPATH in either config not present case, or in config present case for the selected Match Criteria.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Compliance - Sort and change columns width on Evaluation List

Compliance GUI change to sort, size, show/hide columns on Evaluation List screen to see the XPATH in alphabet order
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Not under consideration

would like to have button to mark job to keep joblog longer

we would like to have a button available to mark a job to be kept for longer retention . At year end when we run month-end, quarter-end and Year-end jobs we like to be available to mark these jobs as keeping for extended days. Rather than the defa...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Optimize in-line scripts in Symphony file

Hi I recently met a customer that is using in-line scripts significantly and has over 100K jobs a day. As a result of the fact that these in-line scripts are stored in the Symphony, the size of the Symphony is huge (>250 MB) which imposes some ...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Composer - Auto removal of the "FOLLOWS" dependency

When we delete a job from the database, Composer also deletes any "FOLLOWS" dependency objects from internetwork dependency jobstreams. Without warning or informing the Analyst. I know this is working as designed .. BUT it would be useful just to ...
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Automation of SAP Master Data Manager MDM

We use SAP MDM and have a requirement for you to produce a specific SAP wizard for that product
over 9 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Blacklist servers in Dynamic Pool

If we have problems with an execution server during our production day, how do we stop/blacklist this server in the pool. It is crucial for us that this can be done automatic. Our production day starts at 18:00CET with the majority of jobs startin...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

it should be possible to set "JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK" on/off on serers/agents

APAR IV69547 has been created to update the dynamic agent. The flag (JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK) will be added into TaskLauncher so that it will be inherited by jobs running on Dynamic agents too.This should be made as an optional setting (loca...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

ITNM 3.9 - Poller not clearing events

If a device gets a new IP the old event is never cleared automatically as there is no current correlation for the events based on the device itself. After the discovery sets the device with the new IP that changed during the night, the polling sho...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 5 Not under consideration

Adding solution manager diagnostics - SMD to allow automation

Add solution manager diagnostics - SMD to SAP build wizard for automation
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration