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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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Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Impact nci_import/nci_export: improve handling of command line format errors

nci_import and nci_export do not handle command line parameter mistakes properly. And the --help function is misleading regarding the sequence of parameters: The position of "OPTIONS" is not mentioned in the "Synopsis" *and* is listed after the ar...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Website application monitoring "in-flight request"

Hi. We are using website monitoring feature but we noticed that request that has been started but not yet completed, a.k.a. a request in progress are not traced/visible. Is there any option to see those in-flight requests or if not could be this f...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Remove or restrict ncw_admin role that is required for Scope Based Event Grouping

As per IBM documentation, ncw_admin role from Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI has to be granted to the users who want to use Scope Based Event Grouping. However, this provides higher privileges to the users unnecessarily. It allows users to update/modify s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Get Application Infrastructure for multiple applications at once

We're trying to collect all the application infrastructure as returned by /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology/filtered-topology. When there are many, it can imply a significant back and forth, with many request/response. It would be beneficial...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Basic filtering in /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology

Currently we're using /api/infrastructure-monitoring/topology to retrieve the list of a subset of the infrastructure snapshots and their relations. The problem is that this endpoints returns everything, and therefore produces massive responses fro...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Ability to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time.

The clients would benefit by being able to take multiple actions at once. Increased efficiency
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Functionality already exists

Increase size of summarization and pruning agent tables columns

There is an a discrepancy between the columns lengths in CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis and CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis_(H,D,W,M,Y). All time related decimal columns in S&P columns are defined as DEC (31,2) and do not match with CICSplex_...
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Implement multi-factor mechanisms (2FA+) for any authentication

Netcool Products, including Omnibus WebGui as well any IBM tool must adhere and comply to the Security and policy standards and ITSS advises and requests that 2FA is enable for all products
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration