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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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Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

TADDM should create IpDevice for ALL IPs that respond to ping

Expectations are that all active IPs will be detected by TADDM, and at a minimum IpDevice will be created. We have detected this is not happening today. Today, TADDM only detects devices with certain TCP ports active. RFE is to enhance the PingSen...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Request to provide ITM Linux Base OS package 6.3.7 to support linux on Power ppc64le platform.

Team, I am from Elevance Account to Support Tivoli monitoring. Linux build team is trying to install Linux ITM packages( ITM_V6.3.0.7_BASE_LINUX_64_EN.tar.gz on the server which has Power ppc64le platform, but this package didn’t support. So, they...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

sshd and security ciphers that are no longer recommended by the industry

Within SSHD.conf there are older unsupported security ciphers that the industry has recommended to be mitigated. (This was found during a network security scan) Below is an export from SSHD.conf in its original file. # Limit the Ciphers and MACs t...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Openshift Service Mesh support

Instana agent on Openshift currently does not support Service Mesh bypass and monitoring .
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Notification Toggle

After discussion with Business Partner in Taiwan, they would like to promote Turbonomic to their customers who also using AWS. However, their customer's AWS account is Block Billing, which means the AWS cost explorer API is not accessible in the c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

OpenTelementry OTLP Connector for AI Manager

OpenTelementry is an observability standard to generate, collect and transmit key telemetry signals (traces, metrics and logs). Instead of relaying the collected data via a intermediate toolings (e.g. ELK, prometheus) from instrumented application...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

IWS/IWA Filewatch JOBStream improvment

The client is using the Filewatch capabilities to manage input files coming from external partners/clients. During a normal day they need to manage the following situations: - No file received - a single file received - Multiple file received They...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release