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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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Make action execution limits a per-target configuration via UI

Today, we can limit concurrent actions as one line in the yaml. This setting applies to all targets and is only adjustable via command line. This idea is to allow for us to modify this setting on a per-target level and through the UI. Additionally...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Not under consideration

Need the ability to monitor Db2 instances with DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanism

Per the documentation, the DB2 sensor does not support DB2 instances that use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanisms. The customer that I'm working with is getting ready to switch their database over to use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication. In...
11 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Improve context discovery for TOP widgets

There is no timeframe associated with the TOP widgets. The information displayed reflects the data collected during the most recent discovery cycle. Customers are confused when comparing the data from the TOP widget with data from other sources (e...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Naming convention while Importing policies from Targets

When Integrated with vCenter Target, Turbonomic is downloading Affinity policies defined in vCenter but naming in Turbonomic is completely changed. EndUser can't rename the policy names in Turbonomic as its ReadOnly. Customers exacts the naming ma...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Future consideration

Rename 'Current Transfers' to 'Current Active Transfers'

When file transfers are going on, and the Instana UI is in live mode, the 'Current Transfers' metric on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard always remains '0' (see the yellow highlight on the screen shot). On the other hand, the ...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

The WMI Proxy ID should be visable in the Cluster Manager Settings under the WMI Proxies tab

In order to add a WMI managed device via API you are required to enter the WMI Proxy ID, the ID is not made available anywhere in the product UI or CLI other than make a MySQL query, which is expressly stated as not a recomended process for custom...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
11 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Planned for future release

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
11 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

Show status change history of MFT transfers

Our customer needs to track their MFT file transfers and they need to have insights in when file transfers change their status from Started to Progress and finally Successful or Failed. So we need some kind of table that lists all the status chang...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
11 months ago in Instana / API-C 2 Planned for future release

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