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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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Use websockets to establish communication between MCM Cluster Hub and the managed cluster (Public Cloud)

Sometimes the cluster hub could be installed in a data center with several security restrictions, with some exceptions the customer could open the outbound traffic to internet, in order to manage another cluster like EKS, AKS, etc. but at the end ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Tabs to Export in Excel the Same as displayed in Apptio

When exporting a report from Apptio to Excel, it is requested that tabs in the report keep the same display name as displayed in Apptio, to streamline analysis for stakeholders. 
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

WebGUI - Warning message on executing right click tools

Requirement:On executing right click tool in WebGui for multiple alerts a warning message should be displayed. Right click tools configuration should have the capability where we can define some kind of threshold on number of alerts selected and d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

add a group-searchfilter for the external ldap

In a Full-Cloud installation of NOI 1.6.5 running on Openshift the normal ldap-config doesn't support spaces, therefor we added an external-ldap over the webgui-startup-configmap. In this configmap it is not possible to configure group-searchfilte...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Drill report filter: display natural message for chosing "(Blank)"

Currently, filter message looks strange in case "(Blank)" choosing. Appreciate if change this message. 1. Click value to show drill down report on OOTB report. 2. If click non "Blank" value, its filter message is fine. 3. If click "Blank", its f...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

HMC Sensor - Add the HMC "release version" version to the product metrics

NOC agents must generate platform reports with the version to determine if there are changes. Currently, they cannot view through Instana UI and must contact the administrator of each HMC to obtain the version.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Option to truncate context field in Netcool SCOM probe

When the context attribute of the alarm object SCOM sends to the SCOM probe is very large, the SCOM probe crashes. The problem can be solved when the probe truncates the context field (and all related context_xxx fields) to a certain number of byt...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Exclude unused objects from Cost modeled metric's Diagram view

As a TBMA, I would like to see only used/connected objects in the Diagram view of the Cost modeled metrics. Other views (eg Model Overview) of the metric already excluded unused/disconnected objects. Today, unused/disconnected objects appear in t...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Metric anomaly detection for subset of alerts based on user-defined rules

In CP4AIOps 4.3, we introduced the ability to measure the number of events coming through the system and then send them to Metrics to determine when event volumes change significantly. The number of events coming through the system is defined as a...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration