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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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the "seasonality details" page does not use the preferences. it should pick up the user preferences

when selecting details on seasonal events, the date format changes to dd-mm-yyyy. it should take on the properties set in the user preferences, so the format does not change between the main cloud event manager event list and the additional details.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Add Kerberos support for TEPS to DB2 authentication

Our company has moved to Sophia for server security management and it does not support the local username/password needed to authenticate to a DB2 database. We have to maintain local accounts and keep them in sync to continue our support of TEPS.
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Fix Message Bus Probe Inability to Handle Multiple Topics

When the Message Bus Probe is connected to multiple topics and a single topic has corrupt data, the probe fails for all topics, rendering the entire probe useless. This forces us to create separate probes for each individual topic and separate pro...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Display journal entries as a field in the EventViewer view

There should be a journal entries field available on EventViewer view as its very useful for monitoring team who manages the events where they can see recent journal updates and no need to open journal every time. This will reduce time of user whi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

The customer would like to have better support when identifying the outlying metric in a widget. Some ideas:* Sort the item in the tooltip according to the values* Only show items in the tooltip which have values* Show the whole legend as a table ...
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Report for All Types of Failed Jobs

We would like an option in the IWS reporting tool to display failed jobs (ex: jobs that fail because there are no resources available.) If a job creates any kind of error, (failed/abended/etc.), we want to be able to see it in a report to keep tra...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

NOI Scope Based Policy Table

US Cellular has requested to make the Scope Based Policy details to be exposed in a database so that they can build a dynamic dashboard to show the alarm reduction metrics.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Length of object

The limit on the length of object. This is the list of length TWSD Object LengthJOB 40login 47workstation 16jobstream 16resource 8user 47calendar 8vartable 80varname 16workstation class 16workload application template 80RunCycle group 40
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration