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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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[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Need ACE OTEL traces to correlate to the proper ACE infrastructure

I'm working with a customer that has deployed ACE with OpenTelemetry tracing on traditional servers. When we diagnose problems and drill into the traces, the link from the trace to the Infrastructure links to the Host Agent for the ACE server. Thi...
7 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Delivered

TADDM Support for modern Key Exchange (Kex) algo for Linux Machines including curve25519-sha256@libssh.org

In order to perform any discovery on secured Linux Servers, RHEL 7 and 8 latest supported versions and hardened OS it is essential to support sha256 and sha512 Key Exchange algorithms. Currently TADDM does not support many of these algorithms incl...
12 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

Containerization of TEP/TEPS into a Docker container using IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX).

Containerization of TEP/TEPS into a Docker container using IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) replacing TEP/TEPS Windows or Linux servers. Benefit: zCX enables applications to communicate with native z/OS applications over high speed virtual IP...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

Better control over snmp polling for big network devices

ITNM has two different strategies for polling interfaces depending on the use of a polling filter: - Strategy 1 (when no polling filter is defined): poll all OIDs for each interface. - Strategy 2 (when a polling filter is defined): group multiple ...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Upgrade TEPS - Embedded Jetty Version

As per recent security scan report Jetty Version 6.1.x ( TEPS - Embedded Jetty Version) was detected and pointed out as "Out dated version" and suggested for up-gradation to the latest version. Could please upgrade / release the latest TEPS - Embe...
about 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 5 Delivered

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Add node_module prom-client to synthetic-pop-javascript-playback-engine

Intro: This idea, makes alot of sense for people that wants to use synthetic checks to query a prometheus endpoint. Implementation from your side is simply add the prom-client module in synthetic checks pods. Description: If you add the prometheus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered

Capability to add freeform text and snap to grid on Network View

Looking for capability to add freeform text in network view for some additional information on Network View , also capability to snap to grid on placement of object in network view.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Allow empty column in WebGUI View for UTC fields with value 0

This RFE was suggested since we could not find a solution for case TS011100966. We have added an UTC field to alerts.status, which remains empty most of the time (i.e., equal to 0). When displaying this column in Event Viewer, the value 0 is conve...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered