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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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Export data from Custom Dashboards

We are using Custom Dashboards to track and improve our metrics, thanks to custom metrics. But because of 7 days retention, it is not possible to track with historical data. The only way we can manage to find is to semi automate the process with t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

IBM JVM Profiler Support

Currently IBM JVM Profiler is not supported https://www.instana.com/supported-technologies/java-profiling/ and it makes application servers hosted on AIX websphere impossible to profile and this is needed feature to optimize java applications
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 5

Netcool Impact - Policy activator to have a scheduled time window, such that policy always runs at a scheduled time.

example: case: 1 I want to activate my policy using policy activator at 8PM IST every day , but if any issues noi-nciserver-0 pod get restarted at 6PM IST and it got up at 6:05PM IST, then policy activator will activate my policy at 6:05PM IST rig...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Will it be helpful if can create instana filter based on OrgID , eventid etc to get TPS for merchant specific

Get the event transaction detail per second for merchant wise
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Enable Smart Alerts for Traces

This would be useful because there are certain scenarios where certain types of data can only be categorized by filters by trace level instead of call level. Currently alerts and smart alerts can only be setup to filter by calls and not trace leve...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration

Tool for use in converting of .txt file based scheduling object definitions to .json as payload in the REST requests.

Currently using TWS version and are leveraging TWS REST API to create a robust CI, CD workflow to deploy objects like JOBS, SCHEDULES, RESOURCES to TWS servers. At this point all the TWS objects definitions available in a .txt file using syntax me...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Interface details needs to be displayed in Topology

Hello Team, We have the ITNM that is On-Prem and is running the Discovery. We also have an ASM cluster that is in the cloud and has the ITNM_Observer enabled to load the topology from On-Prem ITNM server. One of the requirement from our customer i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

PHP CLI Support Configuration in Instana-Agent

As an Instana user, I would like to have PHP CLI support configuration in the instana-agent, so that the PHP sensor always initializes without needing to rely on a running php-fpm process for auto-detection. This would be especially useful when tr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

TEPS migrate script (used on non-Windows platforms) to operate against a remote MSSQL DB on Windows.

Hi IBM support, As a follow up to an IBM case which we had opened (Case ID: TS012735674), it was found that the existing TEPS running on non-Windows platforms like for example, xLinux and zLinux do not have the capability to perform migrate export...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 6 Not under consideration

Support Yocto Linux for IEAM edge device

Add support Yocto Linux 2.5.1 and 2.5.1+ on Intel Atom processor for IEAM edge device prerequisite OS. IEAM edge device prerequisite OS is described below. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKVV_4.1/devices/installing/adding_devices.ht...
over 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 4 Not under consideration