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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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Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

OA-PI - The possibility of graph export

It will be very useful if OA-PI have the possibility to export KPI graphics to PDF (or similar) format. Currently, it is possible only to export data to CSV format which is not very useful for the customer and doesn't feed customer's needs. There ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Hide authorization token in alert channel header value

Please provide an option to hide the value field when there is a token inside for security reasons. You will find this in the alert channel header area. Details please find in the attached screenshot.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data

Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data. Search function does not find all CI's, because the search function searches only for components that belong to any of the following subclasses: - ComputerSystem- AppServer- S...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Mouse over on link or device icon in ncp_gis [NetKitMapWidget.jsp] shows fixed data. Add Custom Fields

the columns in the event or topology list are fixed. All that can be altered is whether or not the current columns are displayed, you can't alter the filter to display other columns. So we need some facilitation or enabled to add user specific fields
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

Pre-deployment policy checks to verify that provisioning requests meet the standards/rules of the organization for infrastructure

Deployments must adhere to provisioning standards and stay within security "guard rails". These standards and guard rails are spelled out by means of a collection of rules that are applied to provisioning requests to determine if the requests are ...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

MCM Cassandra , increase trace retention to 4 days

Our customer from CE needs the retention data of application traces to be 4 days , instead of default 2 days. We understood this is hardcoded in Cassnadra but can not be changed / configured. We are using OCP 4.10.43 + MCM 2.3.28(FP6) TS011304665
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

TWS event rule to monitor files in a Folder

TWS event rule needs to monitor file changes in certain folder and submit a job for sync in other server. For Example Master server's methods folder will be having its connected SAP server's .opts file. If any changes happens to any of the .opts f...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration