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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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Under Infrastructure the IBM ACE Message Flow view shows the Flow Nodes associated with the Messageflow and has a single Maximum Elapsed Time for each node; we would also like an Average Elapsed Time for each Flow node as well.

As stated above, displaying the Average Elapsed Time for each message flow node for the selected timeframe would provide a great deal of value when using Instana to track Message Flow performance. As a 2nd ask, and of lesser priority, would it als...
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Allow calendars to use specified times along with dates.

We have Extended outage on specific dates though out the year. starting at 11:00 PM on Saturday and ending at 05:30 AM Sunday. Our extended outage calendar works but no jobs run for the whole day Saturday and Sunday. It would be great to have this...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana Support for z/VSE Operating System

This is a request for IBM to support running Instana the mainframe z/VSE operating system similar to the way it is currently supported on z/OS operating system (with Instana Gateway, CDP Streaming, spans, etc.). It would be useful to the many IBM ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Citrix Hypervisor support to the main stream hypervisor support in Turbonomic

Citrix targets and support for its targets are not prime time at the moment in Turbonomic.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Oracle Service Names

Discovery Oracle database service names. Discovery the various service names for each database discovered. This information is used by many applications in the connection strings and can be used to build out dependencies and discover configuration...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Planned for future release

Availability to modify/adjust the weights used to determine the Most Probable cause

When ASM does the Topology grouping, it uses the pre-defined weights of the edge entities to determine which event is more likely to be the Probable Cause, we are looking for a mechanism we can use to adjust/tweak the weights based on the SME anal...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Message Bus gateway MQTT transport username/password

The MQTT transport for Message Bus gateway only allows for anonymous connections to an MQTT server. If connection is to a RabbitMQ server, an anonymous connection is usually only allowed from a localhost for security reasons. The transport module ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 5 Future consideration

Alert if a job stream getting expire

There might be possibilities that a scheduler adds some specific time frame to a jobstream(Ex : to run 2 months), If a normal daily job added on the stream by mistake in between this 2 months, Job will run only till the date mentioned in the sched...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Alert if recurring job not runs as per schedule

If a recurring job scheduled to run 15 mins in 2 hours, There should be a monitor to check if that job runs 8 times in 2 hours. Or like hourly monitor if there is no 4 triggers. This will help globally to all customers to check if critical recurri...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration