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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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AI Manager to send the story via email.

AI Manager can only send notifications using slack or Microsoft Teams. Some customers does not have ChatOps. Why not to allow AI manager to send them email notification so they can utilize the feature.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Functionality already exists

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Unique identifier to report names

The only unique identifier for a report is its name. This makes referring to in (in the discussion, feedback, etc) confusing and difficult. It also means that user organizations cannot create similar reports with the same name as OOTB reports. Sug...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Datalink Annual scheduler option

 There is a monthly, Day in Period, Weekly, Daily, and Custom range, but it would be really helpful if there was either an annual or if the day in period was customizable to day in fiscal year or calendar year.  For our use case I have t...
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

ASM to support for file checksum on SD bulk job from aaionap service

SD bulk sync API should support passing file checksum in header from aaionap ASM should validate that each bulk sync file received from SD matches the checksum Checksum should be optional in API header; if it exists, then perform check, otherwise not
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AWS Sagemaker needs Turbos support to manage efficiency and performance

Amazon SageMaker is a managed service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. It provides the tools to build, train and deploy machine learning (ML) models for predictive analytics applications . This can be very expensive - Turbo's help in...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately.

AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately. If we restart Instana Agent it gets the time from the Instana agent restart as "Started At"
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Enhancement to Scope-based Event Grouping

Enhancement to the scope-based event grouping extension to allow customization on the minimum number of traps for a synthetic event to be created. For example having grouping on a single trap doesn't really provide much benefit to end users. Addit...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release