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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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Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Remove or restrict ncw_admin role that is required for Scope Based Event Grouping

As per IBM documentation, ncw_admin role from Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI has to be granted to the users who want to use Scope Based Event Grouping. However, this provides higher privileges to the users unnecessarily. It allows users to update/modify s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Netcool probe can connect any other component in service assurance platform

Currently Netcool probe is designed to read only static data as lookup file and can insert data in Objectserver. No other DB or updating alarms is possible. If Netcool probe can handle any other database other than objectserver also can connect an...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Sorting Function in "Apply Native Command Set" Menu

Hello, regarding PMR 20378,999,724 we're opening this RFE.When someone wants to apply a Native Command Set to only some devices in a Realm, you have to search the right device(s) in a unsorted list (view Screenshot). A sort function or a standard ...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Future consideration

Need to see NUMA Scoring from HMC per Lpar in Instana

Hi for HANA on Power it is essentiall to see the NUMA Scoring for each VM from HMC in Instana
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Allow Instana data source in Grafana to "Skip TLS verify" when using proxy

The Instana plugin in Grafana doesn't work if you use the proxy mode and the Instana on-prem uses a self signed certificate. You get this error message:Proxy request failed" err="x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" Most other data sourc...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0

Support for Db2 Connect

Transaction flow where we are accessing Db2 for z/OS data with Db2 Connect support is needed.
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

How can know the Consumers counts for which queue in Instana, We can only see the total here

I WANT TO want to know for each queue how many consumer there are. the count number are the total number for each queue there in instana. we can see the queue list below in instana,but I want to know how many number count for each queue have(we ca...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration