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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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About hiding the Managemet menu

For pods in production and disaster environments, there is a function that allows you to restart and reboot from the Management menu displayed on the pod screen of Instana. Since it is an environment that anyone can touch, the target was accident...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Not under consideration

Make "In Error Predecessors" column clickable/to drill through the jobs via Monitor Critical Jobs in Dynamic Workload Console

Monitor Critical Jobs in DWC just shows the number of abend predecessor jobs in "In Error Predecessors" column. It will be better if the column is made clickable similar to "Not Completed Predecessors" so the errored predecessor jobs can be viewed...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

provide release marker time and scope focus

Currently when choosing a release in time picker the time focus is set with span around release time but selected scope is kept. It would be very helpful to be able to select also release scope and being pointed to scoped monitoring, e.g. the chos...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 4 Not under consideration

Allow users to choose a group name when saving a scope

A user without site admin privileges cannot create groups explicitly but is able to save a scope resulting in an implicit group creation. Unfortunately the group is named automatically with a cryptic name. Please add a feature to name the resultin...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations for ELK or others. Use-case, one can have different dashboards for different purposes, currently you can only setup one.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI from log management tools alike we now have the ability to access the logs based on infra entities.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Functionality already exists

ASM observer for IBM Public Cloud

Caixa customer with huge investment in IBM Public Cloud, is interested in CP4WAIOps (nowadays we are running a PoC). We need an observer for IBM Public Cloud. The actual one is related to Cloud Foundry which was deprecated a while ago from IBM Pu...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Agent starting time in Agent overview

Sometimes we have new agents reporting to an instana backend. In the agent overview we can't see which agents are new because in the list, there is no "started at" column. But the information is hidden behind the status field. We can see it "on mo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / WAS 0 Not under consideration

TADDM DB2 sensor enahancement

DB2 sensor executes db2find.sh during discovery that uses list db directory command to find out the Databases. This command lists the contents of the system database directory. In the command output there is a "Directory entry type" showing the lo...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Adjusting the Roles for the filters and views so no users will be able to change the Filters for Global users

Hello Team, We would like to restrict the ability to edit the filters for all the users and only make that change available to that specific user making that change. We currently have 2 groups - Admins and Analyst. Currently the Analyst are able t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration