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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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Target page used to have search. The new one 8.8.2 doesn't have search. Can we have it back?

For a large enterprise with scores of Azure and AWS and OnPrem Targets, the customer said he needs the search function. This is probably in the backlog. Just wanted to accurately record the voice of the customer.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered

Secure POwershell setting to ignore certificate warnings

Have a gateway scoped property in collation.properties that allows SSL powershell discovery to ignore the CN, the CA and Revocation checks to allow self-signed certificates. e.g. properties like com.collation.discover.powershell.*.skipca=truecom.c...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

Add Repository Parameter for Proxy Artefact Servers

Problem:---------- The current Instana Synthetics Helm chart is using static URLs and paths to the container images. In an Enterprise Context, it is not always possible to access external Docker repos directly. Therefore teams has to use an intern...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered

SmartModel Driver for Cisco Nexus switches to add support for NXOS 8.* and 9.*

Current SmartModel driver only supports older OS releases
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Delivered

Instana cannot capture the IMS JDBC

Instana cannot capture the IMS JDBC calls by default if application uses this jar file.IMS uses two APIs for accessing the IMS data; the first one is JDBC 4.0 spec, and the second is the DL/I API. The IMS team confirms that JDBC implementation is ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

TNCM - Autodiscovery with multiple commands for VTMOS on devices that need of more that one command to do it

ITNCM - autodiscovery with multiple commands for VTMOS on devices that need of more that one command to do it System: Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager Actor: Customer/User needing new feature We have on TNCM the autodiscovery function t...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered

TNPM Request to change old data purge logic to remove dbf files using DB drop tablespace statement

To correctly conduct disk space management on standby database customer needs to change the way the purge script remove dbf files.Now it uses OS rm command and they need that dbf files get deleted usingsql statement DROP TABLESPACE with option "IN...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Delivered

DB2 Log_space percentage monitoring.

In this use case the customer Julie Yates wants to monitor log_space from her DB2 servers based on percentage. Since her team has multiple DB2 servers and the log_space may differ from one database to another, the ideal monitoring for this metric ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Delivered

Improve Redisson support for Java apps

Improve Redisson support for Java apps. By Github stars, Redisson is the most popular redis client for Java apps (amongst others like Lettuce and Jedis). However, Instana stopped supporting Redisson some time ago: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/insta...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

When the rate of resize is NOT 3 – show the desired end state. – let it be clear that it will take more steps to get to desired state.

If a customer has a Rate of Resize set to 2-Medium then Turbonomic will create an action to take it 25% of the way to the optimal value. And this jump (let’s say 32GB –> 34 GB memory) appears in the Action and Details. The optimal value is 8GB ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered