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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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Workload Automation: Add support for Amazon RDS for Db2

Please consider adding support for Amazon RDS for Db2. Some IBM Customers plan moving to AWS. If they are using Db2 in their on-premises system, they would like to continue using Db2 even after migrating to AWS. This also applies to IWS DB if they...
10 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Collapsible bottom panel on Incident > Affected Resources tab

In an Incident, the Affected Resources tab has a bottom panel which is not collapsible and leaves very little room to examine the topology graph.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
6 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

AWS - Add additional RI & SP Metrics

Per Case #00352871, requested to submit Enhancement, as the metrics I need in Cloudability/BI are not available. NetUnblendedCost, ReservationNetEffectiveCost & SavingsPlanNetEffectiveCost
19 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Future consideration

Views - Allow by Seller

Current View options only allows by Vendor, which restricts us from filtering out AWS Marketplace. If we could create a View by Seller, this would remove Marketplace purchases
19 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

BI - Reuse of colors/Edit colors

Due to reuse of colors, can’t identify legend, due to color duplication on charts. Color palettes need to editable, as when trying to stay consistent, say with a given Vendor on multiple charts, the color should remain consistent, not vary each time.
19 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release