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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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Need APM version of QS ITM agent

Need to have the TWS ITM agent redone to be compliant with the newer versions of ITM APM 8.x and the newer ICAM. It will need so have some summary layers added to the agent so it displays correctly in the dashboards.
about 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Group membership should be easily visible for each VM

When I look at a VM I can see an overview, details, policies, actions. I would like to be able to see what groups the VM is part of in this same view. Having to go into reports to find the groups for a VM is not a good user experience. Thank you.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Disable what-if analysis on DWC for Z Engine

There is no option to disable what-if analysis on DWC for Z Workload Scheduler. For the Distributed masters there is a global option to disable what-if, but a similar option is not available in Z workload scheduler. Please provide with an option i...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Export list of Tables in Apptio

Would like to export list of tables and folder information as Excel, csv or tab data. For creating monthly IT operation manual, it would be easier to have list of table in data. Sometimes when creationg technical reference document, objects such a...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

User role impactOpViewUser should not allow editing and deleting Operator Views

An explicit 'user' role should not allow 'admin' tasks such as editing and deleting components that are relevant to other users. However, this is the case with the Impact role impactOpViewUser. Users with this role are allowed to edit and delete a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Authentication method to support OAUTH METHOD

Hi, While configuring the OAUTH method to run the Oracle integration cloud jobs we identified that there is need to add additional enhancement in the IWA restful plugin. Client authentication :- Send as Basic Auth header. Grant type : Password cre...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Re : gNMI - Catalyst 9800 IOT Sensor and Wifi Metric collection

C https://richardatkin.com/post/2022/03/22/Streaming-environmental-air-quality-data-from-the-Cisco-Catalyst-9136-WiFi6e-Access-Point.html https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/technical-reference/catalyst-9800-programmabil...
10 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Planned for future release