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Within Entity Components, allow Multi List view with Add/Search Functionality in entity

IBM ticket TS022916153 was raised.  IBM response:  Thank you for reaching out. Upon checking, I found that you added the Platform Theme collapsible section as a multilevel list in the detailed view. That is why you cannot find the search...
10 days ago in Targetprocess / Search 0 Submitted

Add Instana instrumentation support for GeneXus HTTP client libraries (including Ron’s Http-Client)

Problem A customer application built with GeneXus is being monitored using Instana. The application performs outbound HTTP calls to backend services (Bantotal services) using the HTTP client implementation provided by the GeneXus runtime. During a...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Enable migration for existing customers of Turbonomic (on-prem or SaaS) from standalone Turbonomic to Concert Optimize (as part of Concert platform)

As we released IBM Concert platform, we are getting requests and interests from existing Turbonomic customers to transition to Concert platform and move their existing Turbo deployments into Concert platform (which now includes Concert Optimize = ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review

Alert Ownership Locking and Conflict Prevention for Concurrent Users

Introduce an optional alert ownership locking and conflict-prevention mechanism to prevent multiple users from simultaneously taking ownership of the same alert without notification or coordination. Current Behavior During testing, the following b...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add fiscal calendar awareness to the Cloud File Egress connector in Datalink (DLF) so that "Previous Month" resolves to the correct fiscal period based on TBM project time settings.

Currently, the Cloud File Egress connector in Datalink resolves "Previous Month" using strict calendar month logic, without taking into account the TBM project's fiscal calendar configuration. For customers with non-standard fiscal years (e.g., Ju...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Under review

Instana (k3s-pods) CPU and MEMORY reservation(requests) at startup is much too high in relation to the real utilization. Results in high number of CPU/MEM at startup which is not used in running state. (Expensive resources)

We are using the self-hosted Instana Standard edition (k3s). More than once we have problems with messages like too less CPU to startup (pending pods). Several times we added CPU but what we see is that when it is running in production the utiliza...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Real-Time Alarm Distribution Framework Using Kafka for External Consumers

Implement a Kafka-based message bus to publish new alarms and alarm updates from Cloud Pak for AIOps to external systems in real time. This will enable downstream applications to remain synchronized with alarm lifecycle changes without relying on ...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Dynamic Probable Cause Reassessment for Long-Lived Incidents

Adjust Probable cause to an incident as new alarms and updates to the alarms are coming. This requirements is needed as the scope grouping is not time bound. In IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps, incidents are typically created by grouping related alarms/ev...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Running stanctl as non-root

Dear colleagues, please consider making `stanctl` command running as a regular user. With a list of certain sudo commands allowed it would be more convenient to use. In our documentation we say: ` Note: The preparation commands in the following se...
5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Support external credential vault integration (EPV / secrets manager) for the Active Directory / LDAP authentication bind account

SevOne NMS authenticates UI users against Active Directory through the Authentication Settings. This requires a read-only AD service account (bind account) whose password is stored inside SevOne's authentication configuration. Our security policy ...
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted