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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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Maintenance mode - No CI validation

You can easily add CI to maintenance mode Editor , but there is no validation check that the Ci exists. Example: Microsemi has quotes in Hostname “hostname”.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Customer (Senior VP @TELUS) has raised support request for https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/pgw-packet-data-network-gateway/index.html?dtid=osscdc000283

Senior VP request to support this device an ongoing AIOPS rollout. This could be critical to the success of the project https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/wireless/pgw-packet-data-network-gateway/index.html?dtid=osscdc000283
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL Devices to Cloud Pack for Watson AIOps

This is very important in the Cloud Satellite which needs more attachments with the CXL Devices for Acceleration nof AIOps for the Enterprises On-Premise or Hybrid Cloud with Edge Computing. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Co...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Sub flow Monitoring inside the main flow of the Integration Node for IBM ACE Middleware

Its useful because many of the Financial Institutions like Banking sector would want to see the traces sub flows inside the main flow of any Integration Node in IBM App Connect.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Fix Message Bus Probe Inability to Handle Multiple Topics

When the Message Bus Probe is connected to multiple topics and a single topic has corrupt data, the probe fails for all topics, rendering the entire probe useless. This forces us to create separate probes for each individual topic and separate pro...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

The customer would like to have better support when identifying the outlying metric in a widget. Some ideas:* Sort the item in the tooltip according to the values* Only show items in the tooltip which have values* Show the whole legend as a table ...
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Report for All Types of Failed Jobs

We would like an option in the IWS reporting tool to display failed jobs (ex: jobs that fail because there are no resources available.) If a job creates any kind of error, (failed/abended/etc.), we want to be able to see it in a report to keep tra...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

NOI Scope Based Policy Table

US Cellular has requested to make the Scope Based Policy details to be exposed in a database so that they can build a dynamic dashboard to show the alarm reduction metrics.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration