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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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To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required.

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required. This is causing delay in detection of message wait, subsystem and other alerts which depends on Instana backend console re...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Under review

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Under review

Change "Apply a device template to a device" to "Update the properties of a device" in ScienceLogic integration

At present in the ScienceLogic integration, there is a block titled "Apply a device template to a device" which triggers POST on /device/X. This is technically correct, but there's also a second API call that uses the same URI: " Update the proper...
about 2 months ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

More granular authorisation to execute impact policies via the REST API

As of Impact 7.1 Fix Pack 23, Impact policies can be triggered using the REST API. This is great and we have some use case where our Netcool users could benefit from this feature. Unfortunately, a user must have the impactAdminUser role to access ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Under review

The Job run history query on DWC monitor workload/jobs panel is not sorted DWC.

The users find it very difficult to search and compare historical runs of a certain job. The actual start date and time on the list are not in order. Can the query have an Order by Actual Start ASC statement to have the result in ascending order
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Role type restrictions for views / folders / reports

Only approved users (Admins + approved users) should have access to share the views, reports, dashboards, folders with Portfolios and Public This leakage results in astronomically high number of entries in the Left Nav Team level can continue
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Creating an ID field in reports

Creating an ID field in reports – nowhere does it tell you this is required, and it is sometimes very complex to create the needed field The filter creation does not indicate that a new ID field is required for related entities.
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review