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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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Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Allow Custom SQL in TEP/TEMS accept SUBSTR, COUNT(*) and GROUP BY SQL functions

The purpose of this idea is to allow TEP/TEMS run queries that summarize the DB2 z/OS thread status by using only the first 4 characteres of the package name. These first 4 characters indicate the application name the package belongs to, so this w...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
about 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 4 Not under consideration

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
over 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Not under consideration

See VM's Group Membership

I’d like to see what Turbo groups a server belongs to when scoped to that server.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Import Score cards data into Apptio BI

Customers can use the Score cards data into Apptio BI and drive Gamification initiative in theor organization. They can share the Dashboard to multiple users and team
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Not under consideration

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Certificate support for technical users

An enterprise business would rather like the opportunity to use certificates as a means of authentication for the technical users driving the Dynamic Workload Console.During installation two specific technical users are needed for DWC (One databas...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration