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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?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ITNCM worker failed to reconnect to DB

We would like a new timeout on the worker database connection so that the worker reconnects to the DB if the connection drops.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add possibility to define hidden/password fields for Runbooks

In NOI the Runbook component allows to define parameters in order to customize Runbooks and Automations. It is necessary for some of these parameters to represent passwords, so the confidential information is not disclosed accidentally. Currently ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

OMNIbus EventViewer grouping size and user preference retention

On WebGUI Event Viewer when events are grouped, the grouping box takes up about 20% of the screen and whilst it can be shrunk down, this is not remembered for each GUI user or capable of being set via a setting in preferences.ie. an option to reme...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" event and able to search node name with exact match

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" subscribed event and able to search node name with exact match.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
12 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration