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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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Allow RACF surrogate authority to be used in the configureDb.sh script to define the DB2 database for a DWC running on z/OS

As discussed in case TS012239863, when defining a DB2 for z/OS database it is not necessary to run the SQL (whether it is run as batch job, as a BPXBATCH invocation of a script, or directly as a script under OMVS) under the userid that has SYSADM ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

use of generic caracters in SDOM ACL and ROLES definitions

To help selecting an defining objects. For now just @ is allowed,we need the use of a single caractere selection possibility, like for jobs or schedules selection
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

add a rm /tmp/rm$$ stanza in a rmstdlist command

because a rmstdlist command does not clean there temporary file.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

just retain the name of original schedule in the schedule userjobs

If the schedule is not in carryfroward, its diffciult to retrieve original schedule in the userjobs schedule
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana: Ability to disable a micrometer metric (EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues)

Currently in Instana you have the ability to either enable or disable the entire micrometer collection.You don't have the ability to disable one or some of its metrics. The EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues when dealing wit...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Trigger alerts depending on several events linked with an AND

We currently use offline events in a static JBoss environment to trigger an incident at the control centre. Unfortunately, agent updates, for example, lead to the agents being switched offline in extreme cases. It would be very helpful if offline ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 3 Is a defect

the "seasonality details" page does not use the preferences. it should pick up the user preferences

when selecting details on seasonal events, the date format changes to dd-mm-yyyy. it should take on the properties set in the user preferences, so the format does not change between the main cloud event manager event list and the additional details.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Add Kerberos support for TEPS to DB2 authentication

Our company has moved to Sophia for server security management and it does not support the local username/password needed to authenticate to a DB2 database. We have to maintain local accounts and keep them in sync to continue our support of TEPS.
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration