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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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Making it easy to identify SqlInjection

For HTTP calls performed by GET, when a SqlInjection or other types of intrussions, one of the parameters in the query string contains the atack command (SQL or OS). In the application perspective, it is possible to filter by the partial content ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Java Gateway for JDBC 2 requires to respond with nco_ping

IBM Netcool/OMNIbus Java Gateway for JDBC 2 currently does not listen on the port where omni.dat defines. This is not like other traditional gateway. so that the gateway is not nco_ping-able. Sometimes, this feature is required for a cold standby ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Notification/ProgressBar during TokenTemplate Deletion

End user needs some sort of notification, when Token Template is being deleted. Even when there is some background action happening to remove the grouping against individual devices, end user has no clue of it. There should be log or notification,...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

once should be select Parent event without child evnts selected automatically on Alerts Page

In 1.6.9 Event Manager, when ever user selects a parent event it automatically selects the child events. This make it impossible to see the Journal or take action on parent event in the alerts page. User will have to navigate back to the event vie...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

control rerun frequency interpretation

Currently when a rerun frequency is defined on a job in a job stream that frequency is interpreted differently depending on whether there is a job level earliest start time on the job. Without the earliest start time the rerun frequency is interpr...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add possibility to analyze deployed version if different technologies

As Instana is capturing the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis). We did try to analyze the deploye...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Support for "Real" data type representation in the WebGUI

We need to have a "Real" data type on our object server which we will later use for creating a custom page and line chart graph on it. On the line chart graph, we need to put a latency param and latency threshold which both are real numbers (0.8, ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Calc Explorer Enhancement

Calc Explorer Enhancement - During a recent presentation from Apptio I was shown this new feature, and it is great but I queried if we can have previous periods viewable at the same time, maybe a trend in the UI labels? Increase/decrease numbers? ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Please support AWS Managed Grafana Datasource

We would like to create a feature Request for support of AWS Managed Grafana: https://aws.amazon.com/de/grafana/ A list of supported datasources you can find here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/grafana/latest/userguide/AMG-data-sources-builtin.html ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Set Action Concurrency per Policy

Customer is using Turbo to migrate VMs from one storage cluster to another. They want to set action concurrency via the UI for the automation policy without impacting the global concurrency settings. For their use case, they wanted to always see 5...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration