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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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Allow the option to set our own custom domain within Apptio

It doesn't look like there's an option in Apptio for true SSO currently unless we use the Azure My Apps URL. As this is quite long, we will implement a workaround where we setup a domain of customerurl and redirect that to the SSO URL. However, on...
5 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

NMS plugin for Nutanix

Many prospect customer have intention to move out of VMware and 1 of the favorite choice is Nutanix. Demand for Nutanix Plugin to monitor the infrastructure and platform is increasing by day.
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Use the same "Warning" logic , when we delete a Jobstream Object , IWS will alert the user if the jobstream is used in other Jobstreams as a dependency ogic

If you DELETE a "JOB" object from the IWS database and it is included in other Jobstreams , IWS will alert/Stop the delete command because its cross referenced in other Jobstreams. If we DELETE a "CPU" object , again IWS will alert/Stop the User f...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ITNM to support Layer 2 connection on Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) devices

we need to get Layer 2 connectivity for device 'Huawei Integrated Access (MSAN) MA5600 device' with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.2.80.8 so that it will be supported in ITNM as per case TS001982826, where support confirmed that the layer 2 connection is no...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Integrate certificate import / update ability in to UI

It would be useful to be able to upload new certificates for update purposes when they expire, vs having to go through a multi step process in the CLI
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Option to truncate context field in Netcool SCOM probe

When the context attribute of the alarm object SCOM sends to the SCOM probe is very large, the SCOM probe crashes. The problem can be solved when the probe truncates the context field (and all related context_xxx fields) to a certain number of byt...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release