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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?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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MySQL storage used

Would like to get alerts for mysql storage capacity limit. Similar to built in event for cosmosdb "Azure CosmosDb storage capacity is getting closer to max capacity limit"
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Able to associate tags on scheduling objects

Able to add tags such as job owner, severity, queue name. Those tags would be usefull to filter out, send notifications, create incidents etc.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

RESTART and CLEANUP on distributed d-centric agent

Facilitate adoption for d-centric agents, By allowing restart and cleanup. For usample we can use datastore to capture the output.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for monitoring IBM Informix

Instana do not have support IBM Informix database monitoring. I suggest to add support.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2

ITNM capability to create wireless heatmaps

This RFE is to suggest adding wireless heatmaps to ITNM to enhance mangement of wireless networks. A wireless heatmap would allow end-users to discover wireless access points and create a floorplan to show the signal strength of the access point e...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

To have a easy way to know which targets in scope were unreachable during the discovery

In our environment we usually run discoveries on big scopes. It could happen that some targets included in the scope were unreachable through ping. We are looking for a simple way to have a list of scoped targets, for each of them having the simpl...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Need a even / alert generated for missing MQ Objects (queues/channels/topics/subscription etc) including system objects

These objects are very important if go missing, after some incident happens or someone deletes them accidentally can hamper entire MQ operation
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Dynamic Critical Path DCP

Provide a parameter to desensitize the triggering of EQQP23I Potential Risk Alert Current functionality: Potential risk alerts trigger when a job on the critical network is late, or on abend even if the critical jobs deadline time is many hours in...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Omnibus Gateway map file conversion of UTC time values to date time string

Some OMNIbus Gateways produce output where UTC time values need to be written out as a date time string. For example it might be necessary to covert 1666183259 to 'Wed Oct 19 13:40:59 2022' or similar. The gateway mapping file process already pro...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TNPM. Show Realtime Report - without Java

Currently the Realtime Reports are entitled to run using the Java Show Realtime Report - You can go into this mode through Define Resource View when switching to any interface of any node
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration