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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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Ability to filter objects listed in the Workspace area on DWC Workload Designer screen

The 'Manage Workload Definitions' page had a Filter option under the working pane that allowed objects within the working list to be located quickly and easily. There does not appear to be a way to filter the objects under the Workspace area in Wo...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

To export all certified OID's with respect to Object types and certified KPI's in Sevone

Hi Team, Appreciated your all idea's . One more suggestion we required to provide that for future versions is to add option like "To export all certified OID's with respect to Object types and certified KPI's in Sevone" So it will be useful to kee...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Functionality already exists

Password expiration process for Netcool Omnibus

The Netcool Omnibus does not have password expiration policy or feature for FID that resides in Object server. At present, password is changed by ISA team member who belongs to “Administrator” or “System” group “. The ISA team member shares the sc...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Shadow jobs between zOS and TwsD : Matching criteria same scheduled date

Between TWS 8.6 zOS and TwsD 9.1 shadow jobs, the only value for "matching criteria" is "previous". We'd like you to offer also the value "same scheduled date". Thanks for your feedback.
about 10 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Granular resizing automation policies for Cloud Volume and DBs similar to 'Scale for Performance/Savings' settings for Cloud VMs

As a user, I would like the flexibility to specify which actions to automate and which ones should be reviewed and/or taken manually. Similar to the Orchestration and Automation settings for VM, I would like to see a Scale All / Scale for Performa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Extend functionality of the Maintenance Window Manager - Generate Report in PDF

By adding Report in PDF format Maintenance Window Manager may export data that we can see on the screen. Customer's NMS operator can select the window for report ( maintenance START or maintenance STOP window ) so it can be share with the other te...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Sensor for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster 8.9.x

Need sensor tosupport for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster version 8.9.x
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

mapping js errors for backend

Actually, the source mapping is done only on front end errors It could be intertesting to have this mapping available also on the stack traces for backend side, since we have transpilation process between javascript and typescript
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Node / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration