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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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Plan line items with error to be identified

As a plan editor and plan approver, I'd like to able to see all plan line items with an exclamation mark at the top of the list so that I can easily identify and review any errors present in the plan. When a filter is not applied, it becomes chall...
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

AIOps Topology template to filter on elements' alert status

When creating dynamic templates, we sometimes run into issue that the resulting resource groups are quite huge (1000+ elements). From an operator's perspective, the focus is usually on resources having issues (alerts). We'd therefore like to have ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Show host to host connections in Topology Resource groups

Currently there is a limitation of showing host to host connection from topology resource goups, but with the alerts correlation we are saying the resource group is showing the events getting correlated based on topology, but in the group view all...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Certificate the integration between Netcool Omnibus JDBC Gateway and OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

The customer wants to integrate the Netcool Omnibus Gateway JDBC (NOI 1.6.11 on-premise) to OCL (Oracle Clous Infrastructure Oracle 19). we create the case TS015960524 and IBM support says that the Netcool JDBC Gateway is not certificated and not ...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review