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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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Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Support for Cognos password 25+ characters allowing special characters

GIS is requiring the Cognos application us service ID passwords with min 25+ characters supporting special characters. IBM support has stated that "Passwords in Cognos Configuration do not have a password policy associated with them in Cognos (the...
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for DASH/ WebSphere password 25+ characters allowing special characters

GIS is requiring the DASH/WebSphere application us service ID passwords with min 25+ characters supporting special characters. IBM support has stated that "There is no restriction on special characters for users except for the primary admin user (...
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP. These accounts show up in UI with Red X, which gives the appearance that not all of the accounts have been Advanced Credentialed...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Gateway for Message Bus should support additional fields for Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property

If integrating the OMNIbus gateway for message bus with Kafka the property Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey only supports either the field ServerSerial or ServerName.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netcoolomnibus/8.0.0?topic=file-properties-command-line-opt...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Under review

FX Rate Automation

Integrate FX Rate Automation into Multi Currency - giving Administrators the opportunity to utilize an automated end of month or average rate to convert into their preferred currency.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Inbuilt Incident Priority Control

Summary of the Current Solution One of the use cases we implemented is to classify incoming events via probe rules into service types (e.g., Outage, Degradation, Interface Down) using a lookup table. Incidents are created via front-end policies wi...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review