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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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Multiple Choice for HTTP Status Codes alert

We were working on smart alert and just want to monitor 501,500,503,400,404 error. But don't see the abilities to add specific codes. Multiple Choice would be grate option to select alerts.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 3 Functionality already exists

Replacing Scheduling Objects through Workload Applications

If a scheduling object definition included in a Workload Application already exists in the target environment, even though a dialog during the import process provides an option to replace it, it is unable to replace it. This is because the existin...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

ASM Topology Viewer: Status or Colouring

Current STATUS of resource in ASM, especially its colouring based on event severity is incorrect. if a link down only the connectedTo or layer2 link between the interface and device should change colour and rest all remain black. Unless there is a...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

In IWS Scheduling Factory submitJobStream add Variable Table parameter.

submitJobSream only supports jsname, start time and alias. For my needs passing a Variable table is required.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Limits by combining multiple job streams

Today we can set limits at Workstation level and Job Stream Level. However if we have to have a combined sub limit for multiple job streams, it is hard to achieve. Requirement is for grouping of job streams and setting a limit on them.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Interface types are not distinguished in manual connection configuration

During the configuration of manual connections in layer 1, the problem has been when creating connections in layer 1 and the confusion occurs because the devices in the discovery have the same Display Label in different types of interfaces, for ex...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

HA capabilities for Predictive Insights

We are expecting to implement High availability capabilities for Predictive Insights.
over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Grafana Plugin for Monitoring Data

As we expose monitoring metrics related to a business services in Grafana dashboards we would like to add and compose a full service vision integrating also IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management ones
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

Infrastructure metrics in custom dashboards

The customer would like to create views on infrastructure. To be able to do so we would need to configure views also infrastructure e.g. aws ec2 rds hostsUse case would be: As an operational team we would like to build customize metrics dashb...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

RBAC - Add support for AD Group to Instana Group mapping

The customer would like to manage users by linking AD Groups to Groups within Instana so that I do not have to recreate teams and roles which already exist within Active Directory.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists