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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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In the Netcool JDBC Probe it should be possible to configure a limit for the select statement

The Netcool Omnibus JDBC Probe uses a select statement to read event data from a table. The select returns everything that falls under the "where" condition - and all that data is ingested into the memory of the Probe for processing. When the numb...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Ability to save & restore, clone Event & Alert configurations or create templates

Use cases: - When Events and Alerts are created, users would benefit to have ability to save configuration as a template to use as baseline for other events - save configuration to be able to revert back to after trying some changes - as a work ar...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Session timeout for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

From security/compliance perspective, there is a need for enforcing session timeouts for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator & Event List.In case of any inactivity of user-admin logged into Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator, a session/inactivity timeout...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Not under consideration

Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Event Rule file detection at start up

File monitoring in Event Rules currently does not detect pre-existing files at startup. I would like to option to have file be detected at monman startup.The PMR field does not accept the new Sales Force case number it is (TS001148396)
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Multiple datasets for actuals & plans

We have a client which works with 2 different sets of plans. Each using different set of actuals. When publishing the plan into CT, it would be nice to have 2 entity mappings for the plan (each with its own dataset).
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Under review

Top database & container pod information bulk download function

If we download from the Top Virtual Machines widget, we can download all virtual machine information at once.However, in the case of Top Container Pods , workload Controllers , Container Specs , Namespace , Databases,We can only download 50 pieces...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support for getting Logs through API

In Instana we are able to get all data from the API but the logs. We need to expose an API to extract logs. This would also help to extend retention of logs outside Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Signing Instana agent images

Instana agent images should be digitally signed to verify content integrity.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration