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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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REST GET nsm/work

Requesting new NSM GET URI for work. Originally requested in RFE 88570.nsm /work/{id}nsm /work/{id}/tasknsm /work/{id}/task/{task-id}nsm /work/created/after/{date}nsm /work/created/before/{date}nsm /work/requesttype/{requesttype}nsm /work/state/{s...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Netcool Hybrid Integration Kit overwrite Custom OIDC configuration in WAS during its install

For me it is bug, but support advised to raise RFE / Idea for this to fix. Basically any custom OIDC setup in WAS get overwritten during latest Netcool Hybrid Integration Kit over WAS [where DASH and Jazz runs on]
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Capture resource statistics outside of page load phase

EUM tickets from Conrad: - we don't record asset loadings once page load phase is over - reason for this is that the user could potentially record a lot of garbage data - this needs a proper strategic evaluation - also could result in much more da...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series

Requesting SmartModel driver for Cisco Industrial Wireless 3700 Series
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Support for MicroProfile

We have microservices built on Eclipse MicroProfile would like to get this supported as well in Instana. MicroProfile provides standard implementations for metrics, tracing and health checks. We are using Payara Micro but also plan to use Quarkus.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Mapping for AWS Aurora/RDS instances

Currently we are facing the issue that for ex. AWS Aurora MySQL databases the infrastructure node is not mapped to the corresponding service in Instana. In the application perspective we can see the traces to this database instance. However, on th...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Multiple period thresholds

This is about the TNCP threshold enhancements. The following is a simplified example of a typical Cell performance violation escalation scenario by the customer. Use Case: Threshold violation detection for 3G Cells across multiple periods...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Future consideration

Auto Recover from Hung threads and connections

Terminate any hung threads in application server(WebSphere) and close the hung DB connections without the need to restart the application process.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Change the data return policy of application metrics

We noticed that application metrics for applications that are rarely called are not representative after 32 days. So in this case, we would like Instana to give us average data per time slot (even if it means losing time granularity, but not going...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Impossible to install iSeries Agent on iASP storage

Installation on iSeries does not work if the user library has been bound to an iASP storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_storage_pool).The installation fails in the step that configures the iOS part.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration