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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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Provide Kerberos support for UserIDs in DWC Engine connections

UserID to connect to IWSz controller and DB2 reporting database via DWC engine currently requires a known password. Enable DWC engine connections to use Kerberos authentication to avoid the use of known passwords.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Integration with data federation solutions (Spectrum/Noobaa) to more holistically manage and move stateful workloads

Client's are interested in data federation whenever app management/movement comes up. Would like to see a level of integration with both the IBM (Spectrum) and RH (https://www.noobaa.io/) capabilities to make movement of the associated app data se...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Add support for tracing HTTP CONNECT method

Many organizations require the use of an inline user-space (e.g., Squid) proxy when apps connect to the Internet. It would be very useful for the Instana agent to instrument common Java libraries to capture not only GET, PUT, etc., but also HTTP C...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Analytics: Filter backend calls based on origin == mobile app

Background and context The context of this idea is that Instana is monitoring a backend api + a mobile app which is using that backend api. In this scenario there is a risk of getting other sources of traffic (scraping bots, malicious actors, frau...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Selectively include Oracle Request log in IWS job log

The request log from an Oracle E-Business concurrent program submission, managed by IWS, is not currently included in the associated IWS job logs. Having the ability to selectively include the request log into the IWS job log can make it easier fo...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Netcool Impact RFE: New policy functions to query users' role assignments and support for custom roles

This RFE is to request additional functionality for Netcool Impact, firstly, the addition of two policy functions, one to query whether a specific role is assigned to a user (either directly or indirectly), returning True/False, and another functi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

opt-in for JVM apps on multi-tenant hosts

Enabling Instana on a cluster in a multi-tenant setup does not allow opt-in rollout for JVM based applications. This setup is common for Kubernetes clusters. This makes roll out much harder, since the tenants (=teams) can't opt-in on their own and...
over 2 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Fetch Info-Model-Os-Configuration from one file

RAD script should be able to parse and fetch Info, Model, Os, Configuration from one input file for file based imports. Require support of FIND-BEGIN/FIND-END logic for this parse and fetch. RFE recommended by Steven Shuman.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

MessageBus probe to configure tokenEndpointURI port different from subscribeRequestURI port

We have a device to use different port for tokenEndpointURI and subscribeRequestURI . Currently MessageBus probe can not handle this. We would like to see MessageBus probe able to configure the different port for tokenEndpointURI and subscribeRequ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Possibility to query Service Now or job information and to implement logic on EDWA actions

We have a blanket approval to CANCEL or RERUN few jobs upon failure and incident ticket should not be created for such cases Certain high priority jobs require a P2 ticket to be created on failure. We have blanket approvals to NOT create a inciden...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration