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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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Add Kinesis Firehose Cloudwatch Metric to AWS Sensor

Hi all, Currently, only Kinesis Data streams but not Kinesis Data Firehose streams are supported by the AWS sensor. Since our platform is also using Kinesis Data Firehose streams, an integration is much appreciated. Thanks in advance and kind rega...
12 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Include VIO Servers in the PowerVM support

I think it is important to support VIO Servers in the PowerVM support. At least add an option to allow the user to include VIO Servers. We used to have data/recommendations for VIOS when we were using Densify, so we knew we need to right-sized the...

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instans custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Have a way to duplicate a Group (from the GUI) into a new Group with a different name

We would like a way to copy/duplicate individual Group. This will be very useful especially for Groups that has complex filtering or has lots of static members. This will not only make group creation much faster in certain cases. (e.g. if the new ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

TSA takeover by force sequence change request

TSA timeout occurred between DB2 servers (#1 Primary and #2 Secondary) , after this timeout #2 Secondary issued 'takeover by force' command to #1 Primary.Then, #2 became Primary and acknowledged #1 Primary was active (split brain) because the conn...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

While creating global smart alert for throughput triggers in Instana , Time threshold Evaluation Granularity showing till 30mins only but if it is available at least for 24 hours, that could be more helpful on tracking more requests.

While creating global smart alert for throughput triggers in Instana , Time threshold Evaluation Granularity showing till 30mins only but if it is available at least for 24 hours, that could be more helpful on tracking more requests.
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Prevent RESUBMIT job stream plug-in job type to submit same stream multiple times within same minute

We have recently experienced some mailbox.msg corruption issues which are documented under case #TS014467118.It was identified by HCL that the corruption is caused by the resubmit plug-in job type and occurs in memory.We really identified many RES...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Choose language independent of Browser Setting

The language in Web GUI is set through the WebBrowser. Due to this each user is able to specify the language by himself. Tables which are using a sort ordermay variy in different languages. Due to this we would like to specify the used language gl...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration