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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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Automatic recognition of local DB2 instances

When using DB2 on the local machine only 1 DB is recognized namely the one you enter in the configuration. It is possible (inter has a script for this they can show us if needed) to recognize the instances which are running locally for automatic d...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Make Context Guide information available via API

As an Instana user I would like to be able to export the information about the stack I see in the Context Guide via the API so that I can enrich the metric data we already use the API for. As an example I would like to be able to retrieve pod metr...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

A couple of requests from the customer for enhancing the colors on Custom Dashboards:* Colors palette should stay stable: Currently a refresh in live mode can return a new color for existing metric lines.* Re-use colors across widgets: If a metric...
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Ability for fine granular control which Prometheus metrics are captured

To avoid hitting the 600 metric border for Prometheus metrics customer has found it difficult to only use the "metricNameIncludeRegex" value to include metrics. They are seeking a way to EXCLUDE metrics which would be connected to Include with a l...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Every jobs dont repeat if the previous one has failed.

We would like an EVERY job to run in its next "time interval" even if it failed/error the previous attempt
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

The "Actual Run Time" format changed from IWS9.3 to IWS9.5

Dear Support, Please refers to the files uploaded. The time format of "Actual Run Time" from the files under stdlist has changed from MM:SS to HH:MM. Is there any way I can keep the old time format, MM:SS? Regards, Jay
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

TWS Job Status 'FAIL' records to be logged onto JOB_HISTORY_V DB View

Currently, TWS design only counts 'Success' and 'ABEND' job status for Job Statistical analysis and only these records are being inserted into JOB_RUN_HISTORY table, due to which we could only get Job Status conditions 'S' and 'A' from JOB_HISTORY...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Sensitive Information transmission in URL

It is recommended to avoid passing sensitive information like session id , User id , user name and password ,secure token and , Unique Id etc. using GET request or through URL throughout the application. It is recommended to implement the solution...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Please provide the YEAR record on conman ss or conmand sj output as DWC

Please provide the YEAR record on conman ss or conmand sj output as DWC
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

conman ss command show year record

Please let conman ss or sj show the year record as DWC.
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration