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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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DWC : isLate flag for job streams

isLate flag exists for querying late jobs in the plan but does not exist for job streams.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add TADDM Ability to try both RSA and DSA keys for SSH logins when both private keys are available on the Discovery Server

The current TADDM behavior during discovery of servers through SSH keys is to attempt to login only with one key (RSA or DSA). If both key exists, only RSA key is used. The enhancement request is to have TADDM try both the RSA and DSA keys during ...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Delivered

Update the twsinst script that comes with fixpack 9.4 so that either the temporary directory is not hardcoded as /tmp

Please update the twsinst script that comes with the fixpack install so that the TWA_TEMP variable is either an option or points to the /tmp instead of /tmp. Filling the temp file system has an impact on other applications on the server and not ju...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

I would like to monitor the health of etcd in a Kubernetes/OCP cluster

As the beating heart of my cluster, I would like to be able to monitor the health metrics of the cluster's etcd database.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Ability to enrich alerts regarding websites

UseCase: Mydealz-Alertingwe always get a lot of traffic via Mydealz (for example with price errors). This can put too much load on the shop. That's why we want to be able to automatically block certain ProductDetailPages.Alerting is currently alre...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Custom dashboards: Copy or reference a widget from one dashboard to another

Background and context When creating many custom dashboards there is often the need to re-use a widget from one dashboard to another. One example is when creating a summary dashboard where widgets are re-used from several more detailed dashboards....
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Security issue Removal of tacmd access needs to be implemented immediately without restarting the HUB as soon as a user should no longer have access, and without access being re-granted on next restart.

ITM Administrator has full tacmd admin right. User moves to a different department within the same company and the Administrative access is now inappropriate an security violation. As part of our security management their provisioned access would ...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

French support and documentation

We don’t have documentation or a French UI for the product. That could be a big blocker for HydroQuebec and GovQuebec
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered

ITNM: Add feature to create static network views

ITNM network maps are dynamically updated unless a global setting is enabled to prevent the re-draw of the map. Static maps are sometimes desired for maps with custom graphic backgrounds where the topology icons are placed in defined locations.
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered