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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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Differentiate between Agent and JVM offline events.

It is not possible to differentiate between a JVM going offline and if there is a communication drop with the Instana agent. This has been discussed with IBM support TS013050872. Request for service improvement to be able to tell the difference so...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

request with "override depencies"

Today it's not possible to stop a resource that has a stopAfter relationship to an online resource without touching this resource. In SA z/OS you can create requests with parm "Override Dependency". Then, TSA ignores all depencencies.You would lik...
about 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Limiting host agent CPU installed using Archive (tar.gz) technology

The agent is being installed using the static host agent tar.gz file provided by the Backend, the compress file is copied and extracted on the target host. Then, the agent is configured as needed. Using the archive technology (tar.gz) you can limi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
over 2 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Vmware Agent ITM version 07.30.03.00 up limit table KVM_TOPOLGY

TS008498905 2022-03-30 10:49:26 40 INFO: Inventory.processUpdate: Total count of monitored objects in the environment(10.113.52.212) is 3501. Data collection of Topology attribute group is disabled as it is supported to collect data for the maximu...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Improving Resiliency #1: re-attaching "running OS processes" in secondary node after a failover

Whenever a failover happens, we need the Agents to be capable of re-attaching the running OS processes (attached to each individual SAP Jobs) when its services are restarted/failed-over from Site A to Site B.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Providing a Dashboard to List Release Markers across environments/tenants

Today, we have a Release marker feature to let us know when the release was made. As we started using this feature, it could be enhanced by allowing us to create dashboards to understand the release flows from one environment to another and get a ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

data retention be extended for beyond 365 days for active as well as ceased devices

For some customers it is essential to have the historic data for more than 12 months. Hence need to have feasibility to extent the retention period beyond 365 days. Also same retention should be available for the devices which are not currently be...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under consideration