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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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Log window output enhancements

Would find it very convenient to be able to close all non-executing (stopped) log tabs with one button. Right now I have to click many times to close all the older tabs. e.g., "close all" Notes: Shane offered a few different ways to the user: Clos...
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Future consideration

Add conditional breakpoints (eval functions)

Would be good to add possibility for conditional breakpoints, where you say "stop here if x == false". Perhaps a breakpoint block with an eval function that is only enabled when debug. Perhaps looking like an "if block". The "breakpoint" block wou...
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Future consideration

Improve try catch to reduce number of required blocks.

Currenty when using try/catch blocks, you almost always need 4 blocks. "Try"... "block to execute" ... "catch" ... "if block to check exception". I think the improvement might be to merge the catch/if by making the catch block have fields to simul...
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for admin or users to hide integrations for users by default

Add feature request to hide uncommon or unused integrations from the left navigation bar. Generally an organization will probably only use a handful of integrations. Perhaps have an option to unhide temporarily.
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Allow step into when debugging workflow

Currenty when debugging workflows, you can resume, start over, stop and step. The possibility for stepping into another function is missing. This feature is key to allow workflow reuse.
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Future consideration

After maintenace window no alerts created if host is still unavailable

After monthly patching we have noticed if a maintenance window was put in and the host was patched and rebooted and if Instana sees it as unavailable after the maintenance window has finished we do not get an alert.
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Provide Customers the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget

Customer would like the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget. For example, one need for this would be for the Customer to set the country to "Oman" and also set the User ID to a ...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Add support for Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi is one of the popular storage vendor widely used across enterprises and currently there is no target integration available.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Increase Device inventory report raw limit more than 1000.

We have to schedule the device inventory report but facing following challenges . 1. NMS device inventory report limited to export 1000 raw ( devices ). 2. Metadata report from DI doesnt have the default fields like Device Availability which is a ...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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 3 Future consideration