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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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Make the magnifier icon mean zoom

In any graph with a time axis, if you select a time range on the graph, there is a magnifier button which sends you to analytics and a ... menu with a clock button which zooms to the time range. I suggest you change this to have the magnifier icon...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Allow the user to select the language on DWC

We usually set our browsers to use Portuguese language, but for DWC, and other specialist IT tools, we prefer to use the English language. Until version 9.4 it was possible to set the "Default Locale" on "Console Properties" screen to "en", so DWC...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to mask GET values based on value of other parameter in websites

We would like to extend the functionality of GET url parameter masking. Currently, it is possible to specify directly name of the key, whose value will be masked. i.e. "/mykey/i" for url /?mykey=XXX will change to /?mykey=<redacted>. However...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Properties that display when the number of users will exceed the recommended maximum number of concurrent users in webgui

. Is there any restriction of user log in if it exceeds concurrent user access count?
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Allow capability to change TimeZone

Please allow capability to change the timezone. We have multiple teams globally and each of them see instana which shows time in their own timezone.But while reviewing together, most of the time we want to change it to one timezone, say EST so tha...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Functionality already exists

SevOne NPM AWS Monitoring to Support Route 53 Monitoring

Today the SevOne NPM doesn't have the ability to collect Route 53 metrics with the AWS monitoring solution
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 1 Planned for future release

The ability to display reserved space in the Turbonomic UI for initial placement.

There are multiple accounts which I work with which utilize Turbonomic for initial placement of VMs on hosts within their clusters. When these reservations are placed, there is currently no method in the Turbo UI to show the amount of space which ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

User option to cleanup old images following the upgrade process.

When performing an upgrade of Turbonomic the old images are just left in the /var directory. Nexttime when a user goes to upgrade and they run the upgrade-precheck.sh script, the /var directory is often over the 70% limit and the user must manuall...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

zCentric Agent Installation as root

We are trying to remove reliance on root to install our TWS agent. However, after installation, there is the error - the userid used to install TWS can't impersonate to the proid which we used to run the job. We are attempting to mitigate root acc...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration