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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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Allow configuration of the "No responses received for > 10 seconds" value

Request to allow the configuration of the default 10 second value when an agent is disconnected from the SAAS instana Dashboard. We have experienced on occasion network convergences or brief unexpected outages at which point our Instana's Agents l...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Is a defect

Have EventGateway to associate symptom Events to Root Cause Events by using @ServerSerial-@ServerName instead of @Serial

In an environment with ITNM connected to a Helper ObjectServer Pair, the Event Gateway is associating the Symptom events NmosSerial with the Serial Number of the Root Cause event in the Helper ObjectServer, this causes the Root Cause to Symptom ev...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Gateway for Message Bus - support for custom omnibus tables

The gateway for messagebus should allow any (custom) table of the objectserver to be used as datasource for reader component, not just alerts.status
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

SAML2.0 Integration for DWC and CLI

Provide integration with SAML2.0 for DWC and Remote CLI to enable authentication through our organisations Single Sign On
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Planned for future release

Agent keyword in joblogs are only present on Dynamic agents, should be on all agent types.

We are using ondemand and splunk to collect joblogs for debug and historical reasons.But since joblogs are different regarding the agent keyword in the joblog it makes it difficult to search and compare, since agent keyword is missing in many jobl...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

RFE for conman to show jobs that are LATE

RFE for conman to show jobs that are LATE
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Export of TADDM discovered component

The export of one discovered component in one TADDM environment (e.g. production) to another TADDM environment (e.g. development) doesn't work No PMR number but a case number TS000037748
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 3 Not under consideration

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration