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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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Smart Model Driver for Cisco 9000 series switches to add support for IOS 17.*

Smart Model Driver for Cisco 9000 series switches to add support for IOS 17.*
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered

increasing the characters displayed on the UI for a string type column

For ITM SQL agent -- customized SQL part , number of characters displayed on the UI for a string type column is limited to 64, due to which messages > then 64 characters are truncated, due to this we are not able to monitor messages more then 6...
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Delivered

Cognos report for all Chassis

We have the requirement to report on all Chassis that are discovered, in a similar format to the that of the report Card Detail by Device Type report. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/networkmanager/4.2.0?topic=reports-card-detail-by-device-type-report...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Openshift kubelet monitoring using Prometheus

I'm looking for a way to monitor the Openshift Prometheus metrics, more specifically the metrics that are exposed by kubelet. kubelet exposes a metric called 'kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes', but i can't find it in the list of metrics that t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Delivered

Variance analysis - Change column name to month + "actuals"

In the variance analysis section 1st column with actuals has only month name and it doesn't specify if it's actuals or forecast. As you can see from the attachments the title of the column is only April which doesn't specify if it's actuals or for...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

Support apache http client 5.X

The apache http client version 5.x has now been released for 3 years and is meeting a large adoption as a replacement for the 4.x client. Instana should add support for this client.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

PHP 8.2 support

PHP 8.2 was released on 8 December 2022. Instana only supports 8.1, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
about 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 2 Delivered

ITNM DB2 password change without domain restart

Need a method of changing the DB2 password without having to restart ITNM to take effect.
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

TSAMP support for z15 and zVM environment

SCORE RPQ with TSAMP has been rejected with the reason "SAMP has not been verified on z15 series and for this exact configuration, if there is a business need, we can look for qualifying this in future. ".Customer already has z15 and system instal...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 1 Delivered

TSAMP support for zVM on z15 and Cisco UCS environment

CASE#TS005128923 1) We conducted a storage system configuration assessment within IBM, and found their TSA was listed as related software. The HW configuration included z15 (zLinux), Cisco UCS (IA server). However TSAMP Offering Manager, also resp...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 1 Delivered