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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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There should be a Read-Only option when it comes to viewing applications and resources

Currently, when you grant user access to a role with "manage applications", the user has access to view, create, modify and delete applications. We Do not want to allow a basic operator level user to have permission to modify or delete application...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)
8 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Anomaly detection on issues

When an unusual amount of issues have occured (for an entity) it would be good to assure this boils up somehow. I.e. if CPU usage or memory exhaustion happens more frequently than usual (on a host) the user should be able to be informed pro-active...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

ITP Contracts tab - There should be more options for automatically accruing the contracts

More options for automatically accruing the contracts: annual, quarterly (with the possibility of setting the initial payment date).There need to be more options to spread the contract costs. Sometimes the payment is quarterly and contracts tab do...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

IT Planning IT Spend Waterfall Report Enhancement

As users of the built-in comparison reporting under the Planning -> Summary section of IT Planning, we'd like to request an enhancement to the 'IT Spend Waterfall' portion of the report where a user could click on the 'All Others' portion of th...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability Change the Timezone for the Event Viewer

Hello Team, We have a Global Networking Team that are looking at the events in the Eventviewer but they are being displayed in their local time. We have check the Node timezones and all are being set to UTC by default and We are assuming it is tak...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

OMEGAMON Data Provider support

We are in the middle of a project to rebuild our event management solution. The target architecture should be based on Watson AIOPs and the OMEGAMON Data Provider will deliver data to the Watson AIOps Metric Manager. For this we need the OMEGAMON ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists