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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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In a Windows HA (High Available) environment, provide a mechanism to define FINAL Jobs and Job Streams on a virtual workstation that can be resolved to the active MDM

With the advent of Automatic Failover feature introduced in 9.5 FP02, FINAL can be defined on an Extended Agent and resolved to the active MDM. This results in turn key solution where no admin intervention is required. Unfortunately, this is made ...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

gRPC Support for Synthetic Endpoint Tests

As a customer, I want to use Instana Synthetic Test to monitor the availability for my gRPC Endpoints.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to analyze deployed version if different technologies

As Instana is capturing the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis). We did try to analyze the deploye...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba: Probe should support more than 2 EMS to connect to 1 of available EMS on User provided priority order

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba: This Probe is currently supporting 2 EMS, where Probe will only connect to a Primary in general and to Secondary failover EMS if Primary is unavailable. However we have below requirement: If PrimaryEMS down, Probe should ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

'Current Transfers' need to be searchable with full transfer ID

Currently the 'Current Transfers' (in the coordination queue manager dashboard, for MQ MFT) are only searchable by last 12 characters as it shows only the last 12 characters (...236505bdbd2d instead of 414d51204d4654352020202020202020c0e1236505bdb...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Please support AWS Managed Grafana Datasource

We would like to create a feature Request for support of AWS Managed Grafana: https://aws.amazon.com/de/grafana/ A list of supported datasources you can find here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/grafana/latest/userguide/AMG-data-sources-builtin.html ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Move Pool Workstation without having to create Mirror Pool

We need to have the ability to move a Pool Workstation around between Dynamic Domain Managers (DDM) without having to create a mirror of it on the target DDM. This would be MDM to DDM or even DDM to DDM. The benefit of this would be to avoid all t...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to load Actuals to IIP via ADM

The functionality did exist, providing the ability to load Actuals to all of the Months via ADM.  Regardless if the Actuals changed or not.  This functionality does not currently exist now.  We would like to request the enhancement,...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Future consideration

When creating a DWC or MDM Database on MS SQL Server, the dbuser is ignored

When I run configureDb.vbs script to crate and populate either the DWC or MDM Database, the dbuser is ignored. cscript configureDb.vbs --work_dir C:/temp --rdbmstype MSSQL --dbname DWCDB --dbuser iwsdbuser --dbpassword ***** --dbhostname whaleshar...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

For NOIHybrid Deployment SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE should be exposed in NOIHybrid yaml file

For Customer with NOI Hybrid Deployment if OCP and Webgui are on separate Domain, user has to manually set SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE = "None" in Environment variable in commom-ui-uiserver deployment. for Any reason id user reconfigures the NOI hybri...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration