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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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Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

The "Task" should be customizable in process defintion

As all other term in the process definiton the task should also be customizable. As all other workitems it should be possible to give it in a process another term. Now the term "Task" will be translated according to your language settings, which c...
4 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

API of Tracing

When a service or endpoint alarm occurs, we need to obtain the corresponding trace details through the API, but currently Instana does not have this API. Traversing all traces is time-consuming. It is recommended to add this API
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
17 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Possibility to cancel the export and download of reports

Hello, Enhance feature to cancel the preparation and download of a report to avoid the usage of resources and download large files to manage, when the filters were not properly selected. Thank you
11 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Utilization metrics not appearing for Azure subscriptions

The Azure util data is not supported currently and hence the issue and we would like to know if you have planed a timeline to enable these for Azure Utilization metrics.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Display hot add memory and cpu information on Entity Information widget

Provide visibility on whether a VM has hot add enabled for CPU and MEM from the entity detail
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Submitted

Only display full day of information in charts

Often the most recent day has a tendency to look like a reduction when you do not have the full days' worth of data in the tool. The ability to remove the last day or set charts to -1 day would help reduce confusion with end users
15 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

immediate update of Event Viewer for object server changes

The problem is that the SQL-based right-click functionality, which performs an immediate refresh of the Event Viewer, does not support lo additional logic. For additional logic, a script-based right-click functionality is required which does not p...
7 days ago in Tivoli System Automation 0 Submitted

Weblogic T3 Trace correlation not working

IBM Ticket : TS016801025 / TS017162356 The tracing is not working well on our application.
7 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted