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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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Infrastructure Mapping for AWS Aurora/RDS instances

Currently we are facing the issue that for ex. AWS Aurora MySQL databases the infrastructure node is not mapped to the corresponding service in Instana. In the application perspective we can see the traces to this database instance. However, on th...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Multiple period thresholds

This is about the TNCP threshold enhancements. The following is a simplified example of a typical Cell performance violation escalation scenario by the customer. Use Case: Threshold violation detection for 3G Cells across multiple periods...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Future consideration

Change the data return policy of application metrics

We noticed that application metrics for applications that are rarely called are not representative after 32 days. So in this case, we would like Instana to give us average data per time slot (even if it means losing time granularity, but not going...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Auto Recover from Hung threads and connections

Terminate any hung threads in application server(WebSphere) and close the hung DB connections without the need to restart the application process.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Impossible to install iSeries Agent on iASP storage

Installation on iSeries does not work if the user library has been bound to an iASP storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_storage_pool).The installation fails in the step that configures the iOS part.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Mutiple selection of extractions/definition/rules/policies in order to deactivate/delete them should be possible

Deleting multiple extraction/definitions/rules/policies requires enormous amount of clicks.We should have at least a way to select multiple extraction/definition/rules/policies to disable in the first place and after that to delete. Bare in mind t...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Add Tabs and filter / group by options in custom dashboards

We 'd like to have Tab button and Collapse button to switch grouping and to expand more widgets in a custom Dashboard like applications (call count Http Status Code)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Device Discovery report

Provide a function to get Device Discovery report that would tell if the devices are accessible from ITNCM, and good to communicate from ITNCM
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

DWC 9.4 - - Complex filters (multiple values for the same filters)

System: IWS DWC (Dynamic Workload Console) This request is for DWC 9.4 to have the ability to add multiple values for the same filter in a widget.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Make export/import of RAD files possible

We maintain a number of different ITNCM installations and would like to be able to synchronize the RAD files across systems. At the moment the only way to do this is to cut and paste the text from the GUI. It would be less prone to error to be abl...
over 9 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration