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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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Custom URL Tool with UserID

Want to be able to create a customer URL tool that also shows the userID of the user that clicks on the customer URL tool. The current documentation was incorrect as it was using cookies as follows: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/networkmanager/4.2.0...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Would like to define Warning and Critical threshold ranges within a single Event or SmartAlert

If a customer wants to create both a Warning and Critical threshold for the same underlying metric, they create either 2 Smart Alerts or 2 Events. For example, create a Warning Event when CPU usage is between 80% and 90% utilization and Critical E...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Close an incident

An incident (or issue) occurs and it appears to be a false positive.It would be useful that this incident can be closed with a comment for example
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Delivered

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
12 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Have fixed window for CNEA supergrouping

Currently our supergroup is on rolling window, when we are grouping based on topology, the blast radius is huge, as we are using token based template using various criteria like location, dispatching zone polygon etc. As a result our supergroup is...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Option to disable the fragmentation of tables present under tempdb database

Related to PMR case number TS008818511 The problem is locking on the “tempdb” due to checking the fragmentation of a table or view Per customer requirement, the data collection of only fragmentation should be skipped for tempdb database.
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Installing from OpenShift Registry

Commonly the cloud paks require a big space on HDD (tar.gz files, the uncompress process, the load into the local docker registry, Why not try to load the same file (tar.gz) into the openshift registry? and from this point launch the installer (in...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered

ASM ServiceNow Observer - enhance CI relationship discovery to handle larger queries / Support splitting of servicenow jobs

Based on case TS010786559 it is clear that the service now observer falls down on CI relationship discovery when a large number of CI classes are selected for discovery. This is demonstrated by the relationship query becoming too large for service...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Allow configuration of Turbonomic to only discover specified license types from Flexera

As a user I would like the ability to only discover specified license types from Flexera, in order to reduce the impact on my Flexera and reduce the scope of licenses managed by Turbonomic.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Delivered

Release markers on Custom Dashboards

when working with Custom Dashboards I want to have an indication when changes happen in order to analyze my data around a focal point. For this I would like to have release markers also in the Time Series widget on Custom Dashboards.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered