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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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We need to perform signing request using Private key

Hello Team, We need to signing the message with private key of the sender and verify the message to the public key of the sender. For signing purpose we don't want to implement public key of the sender. We tried it with private key of the sender w...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Not under consideration

Feature to set the limit based on the number of failed attachments (Instana)

[How it is now] When an agent fails to execute its attachment (attachment error in occurrence of some event such as full GC), the agent continues to retry the attachment every 10 minutes repeatedly until it succeeds. [What's needed] It'd be great ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

The product should cater for duplicate SNMP Labels across MIBs

Description: Allow ITNM to handle duplicate SNMP Labels across multiple MIBs.We have two MIB files that both contain the same Labels (difference equipment models).In order to get the Poller, MIB Browser and MIB Graph tools to work for this equipme...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Capability to add and populate custom field on device via UI as supposed to using backend stitcher

Looking for capability to add and populate custom field or attribute to device via UI. Currently we use backend stitcher and customization to add new custom field or attribute.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Run Cycle - create "ByDay" yearly run cycle

We would like IWS have the ability to create yearly run cycles "BYDAY". An example is to run the 2nd Sunday of January every year. Similar to Monthly run cycle "FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2SU" This would remove calendar updates from our applica...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Probe support for Release 4.5 of TMF814

The current probe does not support Release 4.5 of TMF814
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add PKCS12 certificate support to Message Bus probe

The Netcool MessageBus probe for Ciena requires an x509 certificate to connect to Ciena EMS. Using IBM Java keytool to create the certificate with the x509 option results in a message to then convert the resulting certificate to PKCS12 - as x509 i...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Update TADDM API to support iSeries discovery using PKI

As TADDM can use the SSH Public Key Infrastructure to authenticate the access to Unix or Linux target systems, why is this not possible to set up for iSeries machines ?To quote from the Sensor log "TADDM does not support the discovery of IBM i sys...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration