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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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Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

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

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

Synthetic monitoring enhanced permission

Viewer permission will be able to view the Synthetic monitoring configuration details that may contain a username/password to login to the application. Request to create enhanced permission or set up additional HBAC permission for this?
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

sort the column headers in the manage policies page in IBM Watson Correlation tool

We should be able to sort the column headers in the manage policies table. We have changed the temporal policy to be review only first. So we want to sort on occurrence and start reviewing the top occurred policies before pushing to stakeholders.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

IBM i - DATAQ message capacity monitoring

An event is required to be triggered when a DATAQ is close to full capacity. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-data-queue-info-view
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 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

Additional detailed logging in the Netcool OMNIbus Gateway for TSRM

Please enhance the gateway logging to provide a performance summary, such as create/update statistics per IDUC cycle and other related details. This is already a feature of the JDBC Gateway.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future 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

Anomaly detection on issues

When an unusual amount of issues have occured (for an entity) it would be good to assure this boils up somehow. I.e. if CPU usage or memory exhaustion happens more frequently than usual (on a host) the user should be able to be informed pro-active...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration