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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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Dynatrace events connector on Watson AIOPS (AI Manager)

We are doing a project with Dynatrace as source for our Watson AIOPS (AI Manager) 3.5.1 platform and only could get the metrics for anomalies detection, the customer will like to have the events/alerts that are been created at the Dynatrace level,...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Finalizing a plan with unapproved Cost Objects

It appears that we are currently able to finalize a plan with unapproved Cost Objects (i.e. changes have been submitted by the end user but not yet approved by the CO Owner).  There may be instances where this is acceptable, but I would think...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Netcool Omnibus WebGUI widget - Value status Gauge

We have been using netcool for event management for long time. Before Webgui we were using WebTop. There was java based system of maps to create views/pages. Now in DASH we can use widget. Problem is, that we cannot create same view with lot of "b...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add Cell wise comment on the IT-Plannning Expenses page

Users have demanded an ability to add cell wise comments similar to Microsoft Excel. For e.g. If a expense has T&M billing then each cell will have a different forecast value and the user needs the ability to save comment on each cell. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Instana Agent/Sensor to monitor the ISAM & ISIM physical appliances

We have the IBM Security Access Management & IBM Security Identity Management applications which are hosted on the physical appliances. We are looking for an Instana Agent Sensor to connect to the physical appliances and monitor the applicatio...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Enforce Auditing justification and reporting in all interfaces, not just DWC

In 9.4 the ability to enforce the addition of a justification and a change/incident record number (from ServiceNow for instance) to all plan and database changes was added when these actions originate from the DWC. No equivalent ability to enforce...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Qualify TSAMP 4.1.04 on Centos 7.4 and Later

Referencing Salesforce Case - TS001479603 We would like to have TSAMP qualified for Centos 7.4 and later. Based on DB2 AESE Compatibility Report - https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduc...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration