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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 a custom model for linking with job process information

Provides insight to understand the business process environment. In the insurance industry, completing night placement jobs is very important. If it is not completed on time, it may lead to a biz accident.(Missing insurance claims, duplicate payme...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Netcool Omnibus - Feasibility to map either user Name or Full Name on OwerUID when acknowledging the alerts

We have a requirement where we need to get user Name (user ID) to be displayed in OwnerUID field in Netcool Omnibus when any user acknowledges the alert. As of now only full name is getting displayed in OwnerUID field when user acknowledge the ale...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

API Guide Enhancement

In meeting with a customer recently to help them troubleshoot API issues that they were telling us about, we asked if they had our API guide and they said that yes they had it, but it offered very little assistance and us introducing them to Swagg...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP)

BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) looks like a great way to gain insights into routing changes within a network. RFC 7854 - BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) (ietf.org) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7854 OpenBMP · OpenBMP Documentation https://...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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

'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

Add Release marker end timestamp

I can create and update a release marker and it has a timestamp for start and last-updated. Is it possible to express a time range, to show up a long deployment? At the moment, our pipelines create a release marker, after all pods in a rolling upd...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Modify how DA launches a job to mimic how FTA launches the same job

FTA launches a job by first launching jobmanrc and then if LOCAL_RC_OK is set to true, it launches .jobmanrc in the logon user's home dir. In this process, it never sets the variable PATH. A DA launches a job by first launching taskLauncher.sh and...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Include filtered totals in any object totals

If you filter actions in a plan, the total number of actions does not change with the number. It'd be very helpful to see what the total is once filters are applied. Example: run a plan to rightsize a group of vms. your plan actions show "plan act...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration