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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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Functionality to be able to reorder rows within planning

Functionality to be able to move rows to reorder. Similar to the drop and drag functionality of the columns.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Services

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Ansible Tower backed Services. (ServiceAnsibleTower). In previous versions, the output of the Ansible Tower Job would display in in Services -> My Services -> <service name>. This no longer the ca...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Availability to modify/adjust the weights used to determine the Most Probable cause

When ASM does the Topology grouping, it uses the pre-defined weights of the edge entities to determine which event is more likely to be the Probable Cause, we are looking for a mechanism we can use to adjust/tweak the weights based on the SME anal...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Miss page_sets parameters in Instana thresholds

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors MQ pages (percentiles and total) with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situa...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need additional statuses of Queue Manager

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager statuses to monitor: "UNKNOWN" "REPOSITORY_ANAVAILABLE""QUIESCE""SUSPENDED""NOT_RESPONDING" These statuses our customer monitors with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

CST. Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1 etc

Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1, support for spaces in directory/sensor names, and correction of the invocation of the ASDMAINSCRIPT in the archive file). To provide a work-around to officially support async...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Alert if a job stream getting expire

There might be possibilities that a scheduler adds some specific time frame to a jobstream(Ex : to run 2 months), If a normal daily job added on the stream by mistake in between this 2 months, Job will run only till the date mentioned in the sched...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Alert if recurring job not runs as per schedule

If a recurring job scheduled to run 15 mins in 2 hours, There should be a monitor to check if that job runs 8 times in 2 hours. Or like hourly monitor if there is no 4 triggers. This will help globally to all customers to check if critical recurri...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

IWA- Enhancement in service catalogs, Drop downlist, parameters

Enhancement in Service catalogs.1. By using drop down list we can restrict user to submit only the predefined parameters while adding job stream. 2. Date and Time formatting, dd/mm/yy mmm/yy 3. Greyed Instruction on variable format which will be h...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration