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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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Grafana Plugin for Monitoring Data

As we expose monitoring metrics related to a business services in Grafana dashboards we would like to add and compose a full service vision integrating also IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management ones
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

Infrastructure metrics in custom dashboards

The customer would like to create views on infrastructure. To be able to do so we would need to configure views also infrastructure e.g. aws ec2 rds hostsUse case would be: As an operational team we would like to build customize metrics dashb...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

RBAC - Add support for AD Group to Instana Group mapping

The customer would like to manage users by linking AD Groups to Groups within Instana so that I do not have to recreate teams and roles which already exist within Active Directory.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

AI Ops - automated Cost/Quota based selection of Clusters to provision Apps.

Add policies and cost analysis to provision based on Cost or quota policies. leverage model in CloudForms. and Extend to Containers.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists

Usage and Metering

As an MCM service provider, I’d like to be able to retrieve usage and metering data through our MCM hub via a multi-tenant aware API at relative high frequency (on demand) for billing purposes.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

Need to create alert based on trace / http metric value

create a custom alert (and thus event in the first instance) in our Production Instana instance.EVENT: The application is "Card Services" the metric is "Call latency" (P99) and the filter I'm trying to apply is on call.http.path that equals a spec...
about 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Provide annotation and export of maps to Visio, PDF, PNG and print.

Provide annotation and export of maps to Visio, PDF, PNG and print.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

GUI for creating key-value pairs for custom information

System: IBM Tivoli Network Manager Actor: User needs to create key-value pairs in custom data tags. Description: Having a GUI to create these tags, upload the contents, and manage the data and data values would greatly increase the effectiveness o...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

\^ sequence it not interpreted as caret character

For example the following example job definition (our production includes several job definitions with carets):DK01SV8880_1#JOB001 DOCOMMAND "ECHO \^\^" STREAMLOGON "SCDOM\TTBUU" RECOVERY CONTINUEdoes not execute ECHO ^^, but ECHO \^\^ causing the...
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

TDWC EXTERNAL PREDS ISSUE

When trying to add a external predecessor via the TDWC you need to use the application's full name. Need additional Job-Name filter to select explicit job(s) as external predecessor dependency. Like ABC123P%. We need you to provide the ability to...
almost 11 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Functionality already exists