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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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Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies. We selected the 'review first' option for temporal grouping and all temporal policies are now visible in the Suggested tab. But ideally all policie...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To support HP-UX for installing agent with Unix

We wish to newly install an agent to a server whose OS is hp-ux. Currently, however, only Solaris and AIX can be chosen when we select "Unix" on the screen of "Installing Instana Agent". If you could support hp-ux as well, it'd be great for us and...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Perform a search based on actual model.

To have the ability to search based on the actual model.I can now search on VTMOS but that shows not always the required result.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

True additive group scopes

Currently the group membership model is complicated, and counter-intuititve. If Group A is Access all, and Group B is no access to -say- Infrastructure, a user joining Group A would have full access. If they were to later join Group B, they would ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

Support auto scaling/increment of AIOPs component's PVC claim when current claim is 80% or more of current capacity of PVC storage and automatic End user notification about AIOPs health

We have observed one issue - the Netcool connector stopped processing new Events from ObjectServers. We founded out that pvc netcool-vct-netcool-conn- pvc was full, we extended it to 100mb from original 50mB. This has resolved the issue temporally...
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Grouping row in the alert list to support summarising custom view columns

Currently in latest AIOPs 4.5 version , we can added mapping for new custom field/s ( SiteId in our case ) in Netcool connector and and can add same in AIOPs alert view but like Resource , EntityTYpe , Sender column values for parent alert where W...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Mandatory predecessors for TWSd.

In TWS 9.1 is announced a new type of predecessors who allow waits for at predecessor, which is not in the plan at Make-plan time. But this new type is only deliveret to TWSz in TWS version 9.1. Please also deliver the mandatory predecessor type f...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Provide switch on Event Viewer to make that instance read-only

Currently a Page loads a map in top half and EV in bottom.Icons on map do one of 3 things1)Update the EV on bottom.2)Open EV in new window3)Open LEL (or replacement) in new window. This is the RO view of "other"alarms Requirement : It Is Item 3 - ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator (SLOv1)

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI to make it an easy way for the customer to export either 1or all group and policy settings.

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI Use cases: Customers with single instances but no official backup instance Customers with a single Turbo instance whose recovery method may be to rely on a snapshot or network backups. If those are no...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration