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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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Define reoccurring maintenance windows

Please offer the possibility to define reoccuring "maintenance windows". Usecase: Prevent getting alerts for process-restarts that are scheduled every night / every Sunday / on each 1. day of a month / …
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Oracle Multitenant support

We have various Oracle Server with Multitenant Container Database (CDB) and Instana with the Oracle database configuration show and monitor only the "system" CDB, not the PDB's. We want to know if this feature will be supported in the near future,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Add support for Ed25519 SSH keys in Discovery Credentials.

Add support for using Ed25519 SSH keys with Discovery Credentials using pki authentication.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

Update log4j to 2.17.1 or newer version, and avoid of hardcode/embedded inside library

Best practice of programming is never embedded known library inside another library, but TADDM have a lot of binary containing other library, e.g. log4j. Please take a look of taddm-api-clients.jar, containing platform-logger.jar, log4j 1.x.jar. A...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

add aws rds EBSIO% metric into Instana

If you add aws rds EBSIO% metric we can create an alert it
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Setting a TWS date parameter within Kubernates yaml file path on TWS script

We need to pass parameters to JCL during runtime, not only for a job, but for all jobs in general. Since the job is created directly by Kubernetes via the plug-in, the parameter given from JCL needs to be transferred to Job.yaml.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Native ActionScript Container

Having an optional integrated ActionScript container provided in the Turbonomic appliance, akin to the Grafana container, would ease the implementation of ActionScripts if the environment Turbonomic managing is locked down. Additionally, allowing ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 3 Delivered

support Zhone vendor (EMS ZMS) , Device/NE model MXK-F 1421

we appreciate to have this device is supported in ITNM for both device structure and discovery
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

install LWA with a local system user that will not requires any password

Modify the install process for a LWA so it reqires no password to be input or the LWA can just interact with the Local System Account TS005072883
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Azure AppService .NET Core tracing support

I would like support for Azure AppService .NET Core. Currently, only instrumentation of AppService for .Net Framework 4.5.1+ workloads is supported.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Delivered