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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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Upgrade of JBoss to RHEL supported version

When scanning vulnereability of our application server(s), we've noticed that JBoss 4.x is no longer supported by Red Hat, which caused vulnerability flags. We've been informed that JBoss itself is tightly integrated with TNPMW application, so upg...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Backup resource advisor URL

We have automated the agent install process in our environment completely, but when ever we perform the Disaster Recovery Test and switch to Backup master, all the new agent installs needs o updated manually (JobManager.ini) with the Backup master...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Allow group creation whose filter parameter is another group

We have a large push for expedited rightsizing actions, but we have lots of unique workload types as expected of large corporations. App types can include clustered, HA, reverse SLO, and more. These complications disallow us from simply creating a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Application Transaction Tracing for DataPower and MQ Appliances

This is idea is beneficial for all customers who employ DataPower and/or MQ appliances as part of their application infrastructure because it would enable them to gain a true 'end-to-end' view of their application flows. By enabling transactions t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Adding search for Predictive Analysis by Topic

In Dashboard on pages Service Diagnosis Anomaly Search and Service Diagnosis Metric Search, which are showing data form Predictive Insight 1.3.6, it would be very helpful to be able to filter data by topics. At the moment we see only Resource, Met...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

get license information from API

in order to be able to manage licenses, it would be great to have the possibility to query the license usage and license "valid to" dates from the API instead of manually gathering them from the UI.
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Add privacy configuration option to collect full IP in mobile monitoring

Background and context Users IP are masked/anonymized by default in mobile monitoring (EUM/RUM) by setting the last octet of an IPv4 address to 0. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-mobile-app-faq#are-you-an...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Add possibility for multiple Gate.Jdbc.Url's in JDBC gateway properties file

Is it useful for installations where for example DB2 databases are hosted on remote locations in different subnets (like geo redundant data centers) where virtual ip address cannot be created. Everybody with such db2 database would benefit from it...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

ITNCM utility - icosutility (ResourceUtility) to allow encrypted password as argument when running via CLI interface

Why Icosutil allows creation of items like realms, RADs, NCS etc, which would otherwise need to be created via the GUI and typically is a time taking task. Who Operator and Administrators of the application will be able to install and configure th...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release