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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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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RFE TWS for asynchronous Restful plugin

It is necessary to make restful calls asynchronous to avoid active connections for a long time (with polling or webhook or other)
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

do not send sms after closed event

When an event is closed, CEM sends an SMS with the information that is is now closed. WE have no use for that information but we cannot edit it. Either make the default behavior "do not send SMS after closing event"or give us the option in the too...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

A probe for AWS Kinesis Data Streams

As of now there is a Message Bus probe that can connect to AWS through webhooks. It would be useful to have a probe or similar function to connect to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in a streamlined way (a built in consumer function).
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

enhancements in DASH tables/tree-tables

Part #1:Provide the ability to set the default domain entry of a system automation table to empty/not_set/no_domain or something like this.The table should then display no data until a subscribed NodeClickedOn event from another table occurs.Part ...
about 9 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

To explore SSL connection capability from Netcool Impact to Oracle DataSources

Hi Team, In our project we have made many data base connections to connect impact to respective DB and fetch data or perform some other activity using impact policy. Recently vendor has done some audits and identified some vulnerability and asked ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Navigate with context to Events window.

from AP dashboards allow navigation directly to events with event.application/service/endpoint.name populated.
about 3 years ago in Instana 4 Not under consideration

IWS9.x event rule's human-readable date/time variables display as yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ/tz; expecting month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss

In TWS 8.6, when using any event rule human-readable variables that display date/time, the date/time is presented in this format: month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM timezone Thus TWS 8.6 the presentation looks like:April 23, 2018 6:37:00 AM CDT In IWS ...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Limits by combining multiple job streams

Today we can set limits at Workstation level and Job Stream Level. However if we have to have a combined sub limit for multiple job streams, it is hard to achieve. Requirement is for grouping of job streams and setting a limit on them.
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Improvements for state "Stuck Online"

Today, we have very limited possibilities to operate a resource with state "stuck online". There are two functions that should be improved:1. a resource stays in "stuck online" if the stop request is canceled and the desired state isn't "offline" ...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

DWC View Efficiencies

There are multiple DWC queries required for my Operations team to use each shift. We recently migrated to Workload Automation 9.5 and find it inefficient to manually run each query at the top of every shift (e.g.: All Workstations in plan, All Job...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration