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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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Don't reset to page 1 after exiting from connection group

Let's say I'm on page 3 of connection groups. I open a connector group and work on it. Upon leaving the connector group/discarding the work, I should go back to the page I was on (page 3 in this example), rather than resetting to page 1. We've to ...
6 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Connection Groups in Datalink should be searchable

We have 15 Connection groups in Datalink. We have to flip through pagination to search for a connection group, because only 10 results are displayed at once. I think it's very primitive to not have a search function the way we have currently in th...
6 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Hostname For Outbound SMTP Connections Should Be Configurable

The current implementation of php SMTP mailer does not set the hostname for the HELO message, which results in Message-IDs ending with 'localhost.localdomain'. This cannot be changed, and may result in the alert mailer not working under some SMTP ...
10 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Is a defect

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
11 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
2 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Under review

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Submitted

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Under review

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