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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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Support for newest version of NGINX (Nginx Plus v29)

Customer according to security reason made the upgrade to newest NGINX. Bacause libraries for version v29 are not availabe they have lost some monitoring abilities for critical systems. We need support for v29 version ASAP.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Validation Rule for Program/Group Entity

The Program/Group Entity is not present in the Validation Rule.Ask : We should be able to create a validation rule for Program/Group Entity
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Jobstream description in DWC

Hi It will nice to add description of Jobstream into the planning of DWC for IWS distributed. This is a funtion we have in IWS for z/OS
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Multiple Labor Allocation Rule Reference Data Versions

The ability to save different versions of Labor Allocation Rules to be used for current year Forecast and next year Budget.  The facilities loadings, vacancy rates, bonus %, insurance costs, etc vary from year-to-year.  We currently must...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add buttons to filter allocation source and destination rows to match from/to filter criteria

In the Allocation edit screen, add a button to filter source rows to those matching the from filter criteria. This way we can easily view rows that should be allocated according to the rule. It would eliminate repetitive work to add the related co...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

The metrics pods are erroring out because they cannot have a secret defined for them. This causes many errors. Need to turn them off OR add a secret.

The current metrics pods are used to gather data for the last 14 days so that Turbo instances can instantly give recommendations on being connected to a new target without having to wait 14 days. However in this particular client (and I'm sure oth...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Is a defect