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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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Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Add a Dependency to Run Cycle Calendar

We would like the enhancement to ADD a Dependency to a run cycle Calendar
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Read only access to ALL tasks in Netcool Impact

BOA is needing the ability to authorize a user to have visibility to all functions within Netcool Impact, but disallow edits/modifications. This has to be an ADMIN RO view in the WebGUI within a Group Role.
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Request to enhance the JDBC gateway to enable connections to two Databases in a single gateway process

Request to allow JDBC gateway to write to two databases in a single gateway process - This allows us to write to different databases at the same time ensuring the delivery of all alarms to both the databases simultaneously.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

While WebSphere supports MFA redirection but WebGUI is not tested nor supported

Currently WAS Security configurations (such as authentication) are strictly configured at the WebSphere level. From our discussion with our WAS team we understand now that for MFA, Websphere would only need to be configured to redirect to either a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support Helm as installation Method for instana operator

We are using the instana-operator to setup and maintain instana. For all of our other components we are using Flux to sync our Git Repository to our Cluster. For most of our Components we are using helm to install them to our cluster. Instana cure...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6

Add support for 'operSt: ok' response from APIC for SevOne SDN solution

It has been found that the 'operSt' indicator from a Cisco APIC will at times respond with a string "ok", like so: "operSt": "ok", Currently, the SDN product will mark this response with a '0' as it aligns with 'unknown' "unknown": 0, "down": 1, "...
5 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 2 Needs more information

"Limited access" users should be able to use "Analyze Infrastructure"

When you want to set the permission of Infrastructure of a group with "limited access", you cannot set "Analyze Infrastructure" permission to ON. It means that "limited access" users cannot use "Analyze Infrastructure" features today. I assume tha...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1

Provide a metric that shows actual usage of Azure disk drives along with allocated space.

Azure provides an ability to conduct a dynamic life resizing upward on disk drives, but not decrease in size. All current products and the Azure Portal will only show allocated drive space. We are unable to accurately determine if we over commit o...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Instana EKS Fargate support

Please support AWS EKS fargate. Instana is the best solution for cloud native environment monitoring. Considering it, EKS fargate need to be supported, because if user is focusing cloud native, then EKS fargate is in their target list. BP NSSOL th...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / Tracing 6 Future consideration