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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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Improvement of the Deployment of CA signed certificate for cp4mcm product

Openshit Version : 4.2 Cloudpak-MCM version : 1.2.0 Enterprise Hosting Cloud : AWS Background: During CP4MCM installation , installer expects the certificate (BYOC) to be located inside cfc-component directory which works perfectly fine. Feature e...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Planned for future release

changePassword required for IWS 9.5

In earlier version of IWS/TWS the product supplied a changePassword.sh script that could be used to change the password of the users and made all of the necessary changes to WebSphere etc. In 9.5 it seems a step backwards that this now has to be p...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Critical job should part of error handler layout

The batch operators need an indication in the error handler layout, which job is most critical, so troubleshooting can be started with that one. If two or more jobs are very close with latest start time, a critical path indicator is needed so oper...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

TADDM DB2 sensor enahancement

DB2 sensor executes db2find.sh during discovery that uses list db directory command to find out the Databases. This command lists the contents of the system database directory. In the command output there is a "Directory entry type" showing the lo...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
4 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

Change the color schema of the DWC to help differentiate between prod and non-prod instances, potentially open in the same web browser.

I would like to see a way to very easily see a visual difference between the production instance of the DWC and the non-production instance of the DWC. Often times those two URLs are open in the same browser, just different tabs. We are noticing s...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Historical Dashborad for incidentes and alerts is requiered

A standard task in IT Operations teams is to report and analyze incidents monthly to create improvement plans, tracking and to get statistical analysis. Is requiered to have the ability to create dashboard containing all the incidents and alerts i...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
11 months ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Planned for future release