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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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Get notification of updates & patches for on-premise installations

A customer running an on-premise installation will never know if there are patches or updates available for their Instana version. What happens if a CVE patch is published? Will Instana notify the customer that they have a vulnerable version and t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Enable functionality to ITNM Network Views to add annotations to maps

ability to add annotations to Network View maps
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Scrolling API support for Message Bus probe

The only method available in MCP R4.0 to handle an alarm query which returns results greater than 10,000 records is to utilise the scrolling capability.The current version (10) of the Message Bus supports pagination - however there is a restrictio...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Not under consideration

Performance alarm storage in TNCP database

Currently performance alarms are triggered from threshold configuration in TNCP. However the data of what has been raised, when, etc are not stored. We can only get current snapshot of alarms, not history. Customer has a requirement for a report, ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Display VMware hierarchy in Data Management Tool

Our users want to explore from Virtual Machine to ESX host and/or VMware cluster to VMwar Data Center to Virtual Center managing environment. Currently there is no link from ESX server to clusters or to Virtual Center.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

#cpfield Improving the performance of API connections between Turbonomic and Azure Plan API.

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic supports Azure Plan API, but the customer says the response is too late. The customer is consi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Not under consideration

License Compliance for Cloud Pak for Automation for Prod and Non-Prod env based on entitlement ratios

So, License Compliance advisor needs to provide the compliance status based on the below deployment criteria: Prod vs Non-Prod: : Cloud Pak for Automation is charged differently for production vs non-product environments. Also there are so...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Instrument Sangria GraphQL library

We use the sangria library to expose a graphql server written in Scala, running on the JVM. We would like to be able to use Instana to see the details of the graphql call, similar to how Instana can instrument other graphql libraries.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Need support of Openshift ppcle64 for Predictive Insight

Need support for Container based solution on Power Server ppc64le for Openshift 4.x
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Monitoring mainframe call

Our user need to monitor mainframe call but at this time we can't instrumenting the technology(mainframe library)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration