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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 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...

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One problem, one entry on Issue page via Agent API

If I want to indicate to Instana there is somewhere a problem then there is a possibility to make a custom issue via Agent API (http://localhost:42699/com.instana.plugin.generic.event). We use this facility. There is a custom http(s) protocol moni...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / API-C 1 Functionality already exists

We need a force option added to wappman

We are thinking about working with wappman to move our workload to the higher environments. After some testing and figuring out how we can incorporate it into our current way of working, we notice we are missing a "force" option to bypass the warn...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Services

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Ansible Tower backed Services. (ServiceAnsibleTower). In previous versions, the output of the Ansible Tower Job would display in in Services -> My Services -> <service name>. This no longer the ca...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need additional statuses of Queue Manager

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager statuses to monitor: "UNKNOWN" "REPOSITORY_ANAVAILABLE""QUIESCE""SUSPENDED""NOT_RESPONDING" These statuses our customer monitors with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana,...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool should show/use all information available

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool : Use all available information (L2, L3, routing information (costs, type, ..) in PathView + HopView
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Not under consideration

Optimize handling of unconnected Dynamic agents

When Dynamic Agents are not connected anymore (for whatever reason) they will generate a "message-bomb" causing the WAS to get overloaded and get stuck. I've already reported this issue in case TS003762963 (which was closed with a reference to how...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Display the actual state of a resource in an "Unavailable" state

In legacy PMC, today, we would mark a resource in an "Unavailable" state because the actual state of this resource is not explicitly mapped. This is an issue for the user because it is unclear what error state this resource is in and so there is n...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Add more options for "start" time for Release Markers API.

Using Cloud Pak for Integration, our CI/CD Pipeline uses ArgoCD and Argo Notifications. Argo Notifications does not support UNIX timestamp in milliseconds. Only seconds or microseconds. It would be very helpful if for example the Releases API coul...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration