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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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Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
4 months ago in Instana / WAS 1 Under review

Allow faceted search for items within workflows

EdGy Geraghty | 2 Sep, 2024 One enhancement I would have loved to have is a faceted search for object, arrays, block names, etc... for within a single workflow (being edited) and accross workflows. Shane Hadden | 12 Sep, 2024 We have half of this ...
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 4 Future consideration

Expand RNA user registry

Currently the RNA user registry has username, first, last names and password. Can we add email address and GECOS fields to the user options? Our usecase is to associate accounts to individual employees.
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Future consideration

Log window output enhancements

Would find it very convenient to be able to close all non-executing (stopped) log tabs with one button. Right now I have to click many times to close all the older tabs. e.g., "close all" Notes: Shane offered a few different ways to the user: Clos...
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Future consideration

Add conditional breakpoints (eval functions)

Would be good to add possibility for conditional breakpoints, where you say "stop here if x == false". Perhaps a breakpoint block with an eval function that is only enabled when debug. Perhaps looking like an "if block". The "breakpoint" block wou...
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Future consideration

Improve try catch to reduce number of required blocks.

Currenty when using try/catch blocks, you almost always need 4 blocks. "Try"... "block to execute" ... "catch" ... "if block to check exception". I think the improvement might be to merge the catch/if by making the catch block have fields to simul...
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for admin or users to hide integrations for users by default

Add feature request to hide uncommon or unused integrations from the left navigation bar. Generally an organization will probably only use a handful of integrations. Perhaps have an option to unhide temporarily.
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Allow step into when debugging workflow

Currenty when debugging workflows, you can resume, start over, stop and step. The possibility for stepping into another function is missing. This feature is key to allow workflow reuse.
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Future consideration

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Suppoert Hardware Management Console (HMC) v9 and 10 or higher

I currently have lost the ability to discover HMC as the Unix admins have updated the product to v10. TADDM currenly only supports v8 or lower. Need to support v10+
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

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