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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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AI software manufacturing for every well known professional application software job assistance

Artificial intellegence software manufacturing for every current wellknown professional application software job assistance according to requirement mentioned in dialogue box or in new window of current job application The AI application software ...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

Digital- Artificial intellegence software for assistance of genetic engineering biotechnology applications

Artificial intellegence assistance software for genetic engineering applications and for biotechnology application for hormone - microbe development by gene designing for artificial hormone manufacturing using microbes and for substance manufactur...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

About hiding the Managemet menu

For pods in production and disaster environments, there is a function that allows you to restart and reboot from the Management menu displayed on the pod screen of Instana. Since it is an environment that anyone can touch, the target was accident...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Not under consideration

provide release marker time and scope focus

Currently when choosing a release in time picker the time focus is set with span around release time but selected scope is kept. It would be very helpful to be able to select also release scope and being pointed to scoped monitoring, e.g. the chos...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 4 Not under consideration

Allow users to choose a group name when saving a scope

A user without site admin privileges cannot create groups explicitly but is able to save a scope resulting in an implicit group creation. Unfortunately the group is named automatically with a cryptic name. Please add a feature to name the resultin...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Agent starting time in Agent overview

Sometimes we have new agents reporting to an instana backend. In the agent overview we can't see which agents are new because in the list, there is no "started at" column. But the information is hidden behind the status field. We can see it "on mo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / WAS 0 Not under consideration

SNA application support for Instana on z

Instana cannot trace SNA application.Please add the support to trace by Instana, or provide the method to trace it by the customizing application programs, such as adding the tracing subroutine.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Not under consideration

Probe for Message Bus - Add EMS failover option

The message bus probe does not support an EMS failover option presently. The probe should allow the possibility to configure a second EMS endpoint by introducing SecondaryHost and SecondaryPort properties. In our setup, the customer's EMS cluster ...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Orchestration 2 Not under consideration

Ability to globalize endpoint mapping

The default rule for determining http endpoints: "Use the first url segment" is insufficient for us in many areas. There are two ways to override this: 1. Creation of a large number of additional rules with endpoint definitions in the Instana conf...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 4 Not under consideration

add floating border in UI

When viewing a call in Analyzing > Call, lets say a DB call lots of data regarding the query will not fit the right hand window. I know that you can hit the "Copy" button or use the slider in that frame but I want to do a screenshot with both C...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration