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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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Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
3 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 2 Under review

Monitor disk IOPs on VMs

To get events on issues with disk IOPs on VMs
9 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Give the possibility to copy/duplicate several budget lines in one action

Currently, we can only duplicate one line. Goal is to be able to copy/duplicate several lines in one action. Maybe possible to implement it with the new view thanks to the CheckBox selection present at each line ?
9 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Possibility to create report on the "Report Collection" table

Give the possibility to create a report allowing to have the information stored in the "Report Collection" Goal should be to obtain easily wat are the selected role assigned to a collection but also the report assigned to it. This will be more eff...
9 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Alert Group Naming

Rather than use the summary of one of the grouped alerts allow the organization to use a combination of alert properties, resource name, highest priority for the group name. Adjust group priority dynamically based on the highest alert property.
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Impact MWM entries export and import option

We are looking for an option to export the all MM entries from GUI. Also, if we have bulk MM entries to add, we are looking for option to add MM entries using excel file import or any such option.
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

We can see the interfaces and their IP in object summary. These IP's are ipv4 need ipv6 aswell.

The SNMP walk file was able to find the IPv6 address for the interface object "GigabitEthernet0/4/0/19.1202". The OID for IPv6 is "'.1.3.6.1.2.1.4.34.1.3.2'".IP-MIB::ipAddressIfIndex.ipv6."24:00:52:00:a0:00:00:00:00:00:00:0d:04:00:0d:b9" = INTEGER...
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration