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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?
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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IIS Reset dependency for .net framework application

For the IIS hosted applications as per the Instana documentation it is required to perform IIS reset to properly instrument application. We want to eliminate the dependency to perform IIS reset.
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Watson AIOPS / Netcool® Operations Insight - Event Manager Operator to support manual PVC provisioning

Currently the Event Manager operator(https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.7?topic=about) requires specific storage classes to be selected when installing the Operator with the persistence option enabled.This approach requires to have a storage clas...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Export as image and Export option missing in Action drop down of Topology Lite Widget

Export as image and Export option missing in Action drop down of Topology Lite Widget But in Topology Lite widget documentation in Knowledge Center , it is available . https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEKCU_1.1.3.0/com.ibm.psc.doc/tip_...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 7 Not under consideration

filter out the ServiceNow import data based on user-defined filter criteria" in Netcool ASM ServiceNow observer

We would like to define filter criteria for the data that gets imported in ASM from ServiceNow observer.
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Add Entity Aspects to SaaS Reporting

In recreating some of the Embedded Reporting dashboards used in the field, there are cases where aspect data was used in the reports. It would be great to see many of these aspects added to the SaaS reporting for clients to be able to have access ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Government System Use Warning

We have been going through our annual assessment for ATO the last few weeks and one of the artifacts that we needed to present is a screenshot of a “Government System Use” warning for Instana. I’m sure you have run across something like this in th...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Scope - Host availability detection

under System rule "Host availability detection", we would like have option for Scope setting, for instance Selected entitites by Zone or by Host Name.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Azure pacemaker not compatible or supported by IBM for Workload Automation.

We have the IWS masters and Agents(SAP) on Azure cloud. As we are using IBM DB2 for master as primary database, DBA team uses IBM pacemaker for the high availability and redundancy. But on the SAP clients, SAP team uses Azure Pacemaker for the hig...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Re : Ability to generate dynamic reports like Grafana using API or other query method

Ad-hoc query and support for Prometheus . For 5G RAN monitoring such as Samsung 5G already build in with Prometheus data output. Ability to combine multiple indicators and perform some calculation for reporting
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release