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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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renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add "Google Workspace" as collaboration tools for Chatops other than SLACK/MS-TEAMS

This has been a request from customer BPER, that has already bought the solution but doesn't have the possibility to implement Chatops, 'cause they have Google Workspace as collaboration tool.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to a fully encrypted Sybase database

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to fully encrypted Sybase databases.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

TADDM DB2 sensor enahancement

DB2 sensor executes db2find.sh during discovery that uses list db directory command to find out the Databases. This command lists the contents of the system database directory. In the command output there is a "Directory entry type" showing the lo...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Publish from Labor Activity Tab

When publishing from the labor activity tab, there is no indication or confirmation of what they are pushing.  Would be good to  provide an indicator of what you are publishing (FTE or Hours) or provide a choice/box to select 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Instana email notification does not include status and other important fields for alert condition

Client has reported that the email content does not include alert payload e.g. threshold, metric, status. Lack of status field does not let client effectively use email notifications for additional processing of the event. Request is to add all al...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.

TWS version 8.6.0.1TDWC version 8.6.0.1Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.In critical situations where a server with a TWS agent goes down or have severe performance problems, it is necessary,to identi...
over 12 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

Instana tracing support for monitoring Dynamics AX 2012 ERP

Performance monitor our Dynamics AX 2012 R3 solution, which are our ERP system, and primary data accumulator. We want a special focus on SQL performance. The software running our Dynamics AX solutions is: Dynamics AX AOS server (.net application),...
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

When exporting all Cloud Pending Actions from Actions Center, we would like to have the Resource ID (vendor ID from the entity information widget) included in the Export.

This would be extremely useful when reconciling cost data between Turbonomic and the AWS Billing console. Our FinOps Team and Budget Managers use data from both Turbonomic and AWS Billing Console to show the value of Turbonomic Recommended Actions.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration