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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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Custom dashboards: Big number percent widget

Background and context When creating custom dashboards and specifically the big number widget we are currently limited to show data from a dataset for where a specific filter can be created. There is no way to show a relation between two datasets....
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

Analytics: Filter backend calls based on origin == mobile app

Background and context The context of this idea is that Instana is monitoring a backend api + a mobile app which is using that backend api. In this scenario there is a risk of getting other sources of traffic (scraping bots, malicious actors, frau...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 0 Future consideration

SmartModel driver for Cisco 900 and 900J Series Integrated Services Routers

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco 900 and 900J Series Integrated Services Routers
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0

TDWC to have ability to update more than one object simultaneoulsy e.g. like the TEXT EDIT function provided by TWS Webadmin

Horizont TWS webadmin has a text edit feature which allows multiple database objects to be edited at the same time. This may be multiple jobs, regardless of type or associated server. Likewise, multiple jobstreams regardless of the server the jobs...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need a way to visualize TWS objects in a text mode in DWC

Our user base depends on text visualization and the ability to view, modify, update TWS objects in a text format. This is not via Composer. DWC has no such functionality and we are trying to deploy DWC but adoption will be slow without some way to...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Integration with data federation solutions (Spectrum/Noobaa) to more holistically manage and move stateful workloads

Client's are interested in data federation whenever app management/movement comes up. Would like to see a level of integration with both the IBM (Spectrum) and RH (https://www.noobaa.io/) capabilities to make movement of the associated app data se...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

WHP IBM workload scheduler needs to be adapted to use the new SAP BO API

The FTAs are FTA159UP_1 (PRD) and FTA012LT_1 (TEST) the error when we lunch this webi pubblication report is Cannot cast class com.businessobjects.sdk.plugin it seems that the IBM workload scheduler needs to be adapted to use the new SAP BO API th...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Turn on Ruby AutoProfiling via the ruby-sensor gem

As you can imagine we run many containers within our infrastructure and we want to be able to turn on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling#ruby. However, as you are probably aware this comes with a performa...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Ruby 0 Planned for future release

Add functionality for TADDM to discover Windows 2016 Nano Server Installation

Add functionality for TADDM to discover Windows 2016 Nano Server Installation to collect CI attributes and dependency data.
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Impersonation support for MCM APIs

I'd like to manage and provision software to a managed cluster through our MCM hub as the user requesting the software to prevent security issues arising from elevated privilege. For example, charts or operators that are configured to install to n...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration