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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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Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Jobstream should go in ABEND status if one job in the stream is in error

A jobstream should go in ABEND status if one job in the stream is in error even if other jobs in the stream are in EXEC status.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add more than one prefix in monitor job and monitor jobstreams

We like to be able to add more than one prefix in the 'Task Name' field when creating a new job or job stream monitor.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improvement of the Deployment of CA signed certificate for cp4mcm product

Openshit Version : 4.2 Cloudpak-MCM version : 1.2.0 Enterprise Hosting Cloud : AWS Background: During CP4MCM installation , installer expects the certificate (BYOC) to be located inside cfc-component directory which works perfectly fine. Feature e...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Planned for future release

To add custom time range in a instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Add Disk & IOP usage to Infrastructure Comparison Table for hosts

It'd be useful to be able to have a view of all the nodes in an environment or K8s cluster that can be sorted by disk volume or IOP pressure. Infrastructure/Application Support/SRE would benefit. I imagine it working by being it's own column that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Custom MessageKey value for XMLGateway and Kafka

nco_g_xml_11 allow using only @ServerSerial or @ServerName as value for ate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property. We need to use at leas the combination of the both fields (for example: @ServerName+to_char(@ServerSerial)) or any other field from Objects...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Mesaage bus probe support Authetication other than basic

Message bus should support other authentcation like okta other than just basic authentication . We currently have message bus probe to which external system posts alarm to it via webhook . However the message bus probe only accepts basic authetica...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add support for monitoring performance query of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Background: My customer has been using Instana to monitor a native mobile application on AWS. One of their requirements is to detect performance bottlenecks of the application. Generally, I understand a database tends to become the bottleneck. Iss...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Add Influx connector for metrics collection

Influx database is timebase database for metrics collection, it is widly use over the globe for store timeseries data. Connector for influx in AIOps will be very helpfull for ingesting metric for anomaly detection.
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review