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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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Rerunning the single job does not create a new log but overlays the old log

Good evening, we have an idea about the functioning of job rerun in the case of individual jobs not belonging to a Jobstream. When we rerun a single job within its flow it correctly creates a duplicate entry of the same job on the console with a n...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Export and Import custom dashboard data

Hi team, Custom dashboards are becoming more popular with our internal and external customers, and one of the current needs is able to export and import custom dashboard data. For example, we have a bunch of JSON files and to import them we need t...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Add AI transparency for similar incident application

For (AI) transparency reasons we like to see KPIs about the assignment of tickets to AiOps incidents in terms of quantity/quality. E.g. visualize how many tickets have been retrieved for an incident and how "similar" these tickets are (?? quality ...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add alert archive widget to DI

It would be very useful to show alerts that have cleared in the past X amount of time. Works similar to the alert archive feature in NMS. Also needs to work with variables.
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Data Insight Report Widgets should allow the customer to save a report without choosing a resource.

At the moment when the customer copies a template to create a new report DI requires the customer to choose an object or group for the widgets within the report. This requirement causes issues with reports that have large object counts, and the cu...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Variance Analysis Report

There needs to be a report available in IT-Planning or CT to display the summary of Variance Analysis.  1) Summary of Analysis or comments that users provided 2) Summary of users that missed to update the Analysis even after the threshold for...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

On linux JOB the JobManager should expand environment variable (if used) in stdout and stderr definition

On a JOB kind "executable" if we use environnement variable in stdout and stderr definition : they are not expanded as they should. May bhis include this another enhancemnt : possibility to add a ".profile" in configuration list of the JOB (becaus...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration