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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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Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

SNMP Probe able to handle v3 traps with 100+ end points

When using the SNMP Probe to receive v3 traps, these need to be added to the mttrapd.conf file. When the Probe starts, it reads in this file and creates a hash table of the entries. For 5k entries, this process can take 10 to 20 minutes just to lo...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Mobile App Monitoring - App starts and views performance metrics

Hello, I would like to know if features concerning mobile app performances will be developped in the future ? We are currently using Google's Firebase SDK to track metrics like 'Application start duration' and slow rendering / frozen frames but it...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration

Logging Amazon Kinesis to instana

Hello, A few details about this feature.It would be interesting to explore the possibility to connect from our Kinesis Data stream. We currently push logs with Json format via Kinesis to elasticsearch.The idea would be to be able to push these Jso...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Is there a Netcool Java Remedy Gateway version which supports the latest BMC remedy versions.

The latest BMC remedy versions i.e BMC Helix ITSM version 21.3 ( or 21.05 even). Future BMC Remedy version may also be containerized. We currently use Gateway for Remedy ARS V9: 1.0.9
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Able to add Runcycle to job

We have requirement where some job instead job stream should run only on Workdays and currently we split them into 2 job streams1) To run on every day at certain time2) To run on workdays at certain time If we get option to setup runcycle at job l...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

SHA-256 and above, AES-256 and above supports are required in MTTRAPD probe

SNMP V3 is configured to accept traps from vRealize Operations Manager 8.2. vRealize Operations Manager 8.2 supports Authentication algorithms SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and Privacy algorithms AES192, AES256. SHA-256 and above, AES-256 and...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

Way to calculate license usage of product with new IP address based licensing that excludes COC objects

Hi, with new IP addressing based licensing calculations we should calculate from device manager amount of IP addresses. There are also COC objects there in the listing which also have IP addresses. Requesting a way to exclude those COC objects so ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Use Local Resources Globally

A resource defined on a Dynamic Agent can not be used as a dependency on a job on another Dynamic Agent in the same Job Stream.
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Custom dashboards: Copy a dataset or filter from one widget to another

Background and context When creating a dashboard it's often useful to re-use datasets or filters between different widgets. If it's the same widget, the duplicate widget functionality can be used, but there is no way to re-use a dataset or filter ...
over 2 years ago in Instana 2 Future consideration