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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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AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

To be able to control how broker jobs execute, alphabetically vs based on start time.

Currently dynamic broker jobs execute in alphabetical order and if jobs back up for any reason, then jobs at higher alphabet order execute first and lower alphabet jobs wait even though start time was in past. This causes SLA's to be missed and no...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Need API call to run the already configured NFVD load jobs

Its needed by the client to perform LCM takeover during regression testing
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Needs more information

Enhance Peregrine Gateway to accept a Change Number when the Ticket Number is not available.

Peregrine Gateway not updating Omnibus events in some cases. We have integration between Netcool/Omnibus and HPSM as described here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSSHTQ/hpscgw-pdf.pdf Whenever we send some event from Omnibus to HPSM through Peregri...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Adding Connection metrics in IBM MQ Channel while creating Instana Events

Connection metric should be included while defining event for IBM MQ Channel. Giving the user privilege to define event to monitor connections made to a channel.
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Use the more secure Azure Managed Identity instead of SAS token when authenticating SevOne DataBus (SDB) against a Kafka enabled Event Hub

Currently, our SevOne DataBus (SDB) feed is sending to an Azure Event Hub as the Kafka Consumer endpoint. Authentication relies on a SAS token (SharedAccessKey). The use of SAS tokens as an authentication mechanism is proved to be less secure, and...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Need to monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

Instana agent must bring metrics from multiple database services with different ports on local host.

The current Instana implemented code picks the “port” number from configuration.yaml file and figures out that what is database service name (or SID) and connects and brings-in corresponding metrics. IBM developers may update the code to read mult...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Needs more information

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Shadows jobs' folders

When the name of jobstream definition contains a folder in workstation name or jobstream name, the associated shadow job goes into error state. Could you add these folders, please?
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release