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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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Add Business Mappings Reconciliation scheduling to Cloudability

As a customer with many environments in Azure and AWS, we must run the business mappings reconciliation script on a regular basis. Apptio developers have supplied the script and the associated credentials for the Cloudability API and we have creat...
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

JDBC gateway supporting PostgreSQL database

GSMA accounts are requesting Netcool to integrate to PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system. Many accounts are looking to integrate to postgressql. I see Netcool impa...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Composer cmd to display Locked objects in the DB

We have a need for a new composer command that displays all objects in "Locked" status in the DB. Would like to have this ability for all the different type of objects that can get Locked in the DB. Jobs, Jobstreams, Resources, Variable Tables, Ca...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improved flexibility around editable table promotion options

Requesting to enhance the options around promoting editible tables. Promotion Options section (as a checkbox/dropdown containing all ETs in our environment we can select from) the Editable Table (or Standard Table) options?  
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Planned for future release

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.
10 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Integration with Splunk and Signal FX

Many clients and Accenture Internal Teams are using Splunk for AIOps. Hence there have been multiple requests for Turbonomic SPlunk Integration
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

API token and API access like should be able to support customer approved central authority such as fedsso and LDAP

Current customer Security team required us to used LDAP/AD for any API access. currently we use File observer to send topology files using ASM username and password provided by NOI platform. We also doing metric manager integration configuration w...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review