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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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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

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 The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...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

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

To alert on CVEs, introduce a new event type in Instana for "Vulnerabilities Detected"

Instana should provide capabilites to create an event based on a vulnerability detected for the particular host/technology, so that the customer's support teams are alerted for the detected vulnerabilities. The event could be either a System Event...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities similar to the legacy HTTP Transport. # retryLimit - The number of time for http client to retry connection if previously failed. # retryLimit = 2 # # retryWait - The amount of time...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to see trough API the history of removed peers & HSA

Request is ability to see the information through API of HSA and Peers that were removed successfully previously. And in case of re-adding a repaved host, erase that information.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to remove and then re-add a virtual appliance to an NMS cluster without re-imaging

Request is ability to remove and then re-add a virtual appliance to an NMS cluster without re-imaging to we do not loose server capacity when testing, since it is a painful process for us to get this.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Request for a cluster management API endpoint to give visibility of the data replication status when adding an HSA.

Request is to provide an API endpoint that provides data replication status during REPAVE process when adding an HSA, so we can automate procedure and comply with company DC requirements.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Provide improved options for searching LDAP groups when configuring LDAP based access.

Provide improved options for searching LDAP groups when configuring LDAP based access. Today group filter is using “*<string provided>*” as the group name filter. Given the scale of our AD environment this takes too long to respond or return...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Planned for future release