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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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Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 2 Planned for future release

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Display Scope Set Name Used for Load-Balanced Discovery in History Pane

We are running load-balanced discoveries against scope groups that contain many individual scope set entries.The individual scope sets contain a VLAN range in our internal and external networks and the scope set's name reflects the VLAN name. This...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

discovery and Ping polling to VRF interface with HSRP on Nexus

We need to be able to discover and ping polling to the IP addresses on physical interfaces on HSRP with VRF environment on Nexus. When ITNM discover HSRP with VRF's between 2 devices, ITNM sometimes defined the physical or virtual IP address as a ...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Notification Toggle

After discussion with Business Partner in Taiwan, they would like to promote Turbonomic to their customers who also using AWS. However, their customer's AWS account is Block Billing, which means the AWS cost explorer API is not accessible in the c...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

OpenTelementry OTLP Connector for AI Manager

OpenTelementry is an observability standard to generate, collect and transmit key telemetry signals (traces, metrics and logs). Instead of relaying the collected data via a intermediate toolings (e.g. ELK, prometheus) from instrumented application...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to set std_table_dot_walk parameter in servicenow-observer job UI

When discovering resources using the servicenow-observer for large CI tables an error is flagged up regarding pagination and suggestion in the manual is to set std_table_dot_walk=false via swagger. Now the manual is pretty poor when it comes to ho...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

if we add the job in expired stream while saving it should send / flash the warning message to operator.

It should flash a warning message in TDWC/CLI while saving the job in expired jobstream, There is high possibility to add a job inside an expired stream which will be happening globally on all TWS projects.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Supports HTTP Tracing for ppc64le little-endian architecture

Important finance company in Peru, is about to acquire Instana and needs to monitor with Instana agents the trace of its web servers. This is possible but the architecture is not supported.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration