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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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Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger Config Backup' and 'Trigger Config Restore' on the Resource Browser

Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger config backup' and 'Trigger config Restore' via an activity set via account management.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Planned for future release

Add historical reporting features available on IWS to IWS on Cloud.

IWS on Cloud (SaaS) does not provide the historical reporting features available in the on-premise versions. The "historical reports" features should be available to SaaS customers too. The priority is on "job run history".
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

UI configuration option for case-insensitive username with LDAP

Currently, IBM Cloud Private only accepts case-sensitive usernames from LDAP. This is atypical and confusing for users as a result, especially if they're not even aware of how their username appears in the database. It can currently be configured ...
about 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Instana Backend on ARM

Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Add Influx connector for metrics collection

Influx database is timebase database for metrics collection, it is widly use over the globe for store timeseries data. Connector for influx in AIOps will be very helpfull for ingesting metric for anomaly detection.
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Need ability to monitor files

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of files with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCA...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0

Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

OOTB support for Multi-Objectserver Cloud Native Event Analytics.

Most Telco customers have more than a single Objectserver processing their Network faults. The current limitation is posing to be big bottleneck for performing cross Objectserver Temporal event analytics. The request is basically to implement an O...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release