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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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Support of DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9

We need to install DB2 for LUW v.11.5.9, as per contractual obligations with our customer and because this version introduces some security fixes. TADDM version 7.3.0.11 is currently supporting DB2 v11.5.8; can you please evaluate to certify this ...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 3 Delivered

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Sensor for Redhat RHEV

Sensor for the discovery of 'Red Hat Virtualization' RHV - formerly known as RHEV (RHEV-H, RHEV-M).
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

Remove 1,000 character limitation on the comment field of job stream objects

Prior to IWS v10.1, there was not a 1000 character limit. We often exceed this limit due to taking notes on each change to a stream. This is a business practice which we have used for over 10 years. Ever since the upgrade, we cannot add any more n...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered

Export data to CSV

Our users need to extract data from instana to generate report for SLA to our clients. So we 'd like to have a button "export Data" from the analytic view to get data. Regards
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Custom Dashboards: Creating calculated values and then plotting them

In custom dashboards today, we can't seem to create a calculated value and then plot it as a single line. For example: 1) Go to dashboards and create a new time series widget. 2) Use data source: Infrastructure & Platforms 3) For metrics, u...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

Add exclusive edit permission for specified columns to Controlling / TBMO

Our Controllers and TBMAs want a custom column that is only editable for them and not to other users. This would allow to add comments and annotations that cannot be overwritten.  Or simply a yes/no flag that says "checked by Controlling" tha...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Enable Profiling for Applications on Windows OS

Customers need the ability to identify hotspots at a very granular level, this will help them further troubleshoot Windows hosted applications and services. All customers current and future will benefit from this. This capability should work just ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Delivered

Support for Redis / Jedis Version 4.x (incl. 4.3.2)

Currently supported according to documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/262?topic=machine-instrumented-frameworks-libraries) Redis (Jedis) [2.8, 2.10], [3.0, 3.9]
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered