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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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NCM Compliance result should give more meaningful Evaluation

Currently it's hard for user to identify which evaluation in NCM Compliance that's failing or passed. IN each of the execution, under each run, it only show list of Evaluation which mapped to each definition. If 1 of the definition failed, user on...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that re

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that require a length of over 45 cha.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

NOI integration with CyberArk

Currently my client's authentication system is done by cyberark, it does not allow users with local authentication
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Ability to search by POD IP in dynamic focus

The use case is to identify the POD details from a Nginx downstream when it returns an error for no response from downstream service and it returns only IP of the downstream POD. However, unfortunately the current filtering with dynamic focus can ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Handle http status code 0 not as error

Envoy is becoming a popular reverse proxy in the cloud native space. Although it is supported by Instana for monitoring and tracing, we found one case where traces are marked as erroneous, but should not be: Client disconnects. When a client close...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Future consideration

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Request for adding Outgoing connection for PagerDuty with AI Manager in Data And Tool integration

In order to receive the alerts to PagerDuty, we are looking for some outgoing connection to be added to AI Manager in Data And Tool Integration which will help SREs in our team to monitor all alerts coming from AI Manager of CP4WAIOps from PagerDu...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

We should have the option of adding host dns alias in the resources managed by custom resource "manageservice"

Its useful because sometimes, you want to add the dns alias locally instead of adding a global alias or override an existing dns alias. This is supported by openshift but its restricted in this case because of custom resource. (Infrastructure auto...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Display deployment markers in Event views

Smart Alerts with adaptive thresholds is a nice feature to detect anomalies. Very often these anomalies are triggered by a change in the system (for example a deployment). Many graphs in Instana display the deployment markers for this reason, but ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Allow RACF surrogate authority to be used in the configureDb.sh script to define the DB2 database for a DWC running on z/OS

As discussed in case TS012239863, when defining a DB2 for z/OS database it is not necessary to run the SQL (whether it is run as batch job, as a BPXBATCH invocation of a script, or directly as a script under OMVS) under the userid that has SYSADM ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration