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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Information on jobs waiting on parallel server limits

Would like a report of jobs waiting on workstation parallel servers and how long they were waiting before starting. This would facilitate analysis of jobstream delays and identifying bottlenecks in the nightly batch.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Actionalble Seasonality - Alert when an expected seasonal occurrence of an event does not happen

if an event is seasonal, but does not occur at the expected seasonal time, do some action (generate event, open ticket, etc.)
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improve UI for Agent details

The new ReWe onprem deployment will be running up to 30k agents in 1 TU. The UI doesn't work with this many agents in the agent reporting and details in the UI. It fails to load. I have talked to team infra and this is a known issue and I was aske...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Make the magnifier icon mean zoom

In any graph with a time axis, if you select a time range on the graph, there is a magnifier button which sends you to analytics and a ... menu with a clock button which zooms to the time range. I suggest you change this to have the magnifier icon...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Time interval between 1st & last Event in Related Event Group

On NOI-onprem, there is no way to specify or update or add the time interval between 1st and the last event within a Related Event Group through the UI. Because in real world, the events within a Related Event Group may or may not always appear in...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow the user to select the language on DWC

We usually set our browsers to use Portuguese language, but for DWC, and other specialist IT tools, we prefer to use the English language. Until version 9.4 it was possible to set the "Default Locale" on "Console Properties" screen to "en", so DWC...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Adding search for Predictive Analysis by Topic

In Dashboard on pages Service Diagnosis Anomaly Search and Service Diagnosis Metric Search, which are showing data form Predictive Insight 1.3.6, it would be very helpful to be able to filter data by topics. At the moment we see only Resource, Met...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Possibility to mask GET values based on value of other parameter in websites

We would like to extend the functionality of GET url parameter masking. Currently, it is possible to specify directly name of the key, whose value will be masked. i.e. "/mykey/i" for url /?mykey=XXX will change to /?mykey=<redacted>. However...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Check the supplied hostname format before starting the install process.

When standing up a new Turbo VM from the OVA there is an option to run the ./t8c.sh script and pass a -h modifier followed by the desired host name of the VM - so it is not named the default node1. If a hostname is supplied with an improper format...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Add privacy configuration option to collect full IP in mobile monitoring

Background and context Users IP are masked/anonymized by default in mobile monitoring (EUM/RUM) by setting the last octet of an IPv4 address to 0. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-mobile-app-faq#are-you-an...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration