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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?
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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nco_config should not close an edit window upon hitting ESC

When editing a trigger or a procedure in nco_config, hitting ESC closes the window without any warning.If you are used to vi, then hitting ESC just happens - and all your work is gone.At least a warning box should appear, or ESC should be suppress...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Password expiration process for Netcool Omnibus

The Netcool Omnibus does not have password expiration policy or feature for FID that resides in Object server. At present, password is changed by ISA team member who belongs to “Administrator” or “System” group “. The ISA team member shares the sc...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

Ability download individual diagnostic components

We have always had a problem downloading large diagnostic files at CITI and the option to download individual smaller files would be preferred. The current diagnostic bundle is made up of all of the assigned pods diagnostic files.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button

Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button. This would benefit both the Turbonomic PS/CS team members and client to understand and identify the current client licensing. It would work that at the heading would di...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Not under consideration

Netcool Omnibus WebGUI widget - Value status Gauge

We have been using netcool for event management for long time. Before Webgui we were using WebTop. There was java based system of maps to create views/pages. Now in DASH we can use widget. Problem is, that we cannot create same view with lot of "b...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Jobstream description in DWC

Hi It will nice to add description of Jobstream into the planning of DWC for IWS distributed. This is a funtion we have in IWS for z/OS
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Saving NCO_PA configuration file via CLI utility

We can customize (add processes and services) of Process Agent settings via CLI nco_pa_addentry utility, but all new implemented settings can not be saved by any CLI tool.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration