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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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NOI: - Development Request for API to Integrate NOI Event Analytics Pattern Pages with our external application Alarm Dictionary

Currently, our custom application/database, Alarm Dictionary, serves as the repository for all event analytics pattern names. To streamline the user experience and enhance functionality, we envision the integration of an API that would allow our a...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AWS Lambda "invoke" instrumentation

Hello, Recently we have been trying to add our AWS Lambdas to our instana monitoring. We successfully added the node package where it was needed and got good results on lambda call via Messaging (like SQS) or Api Gateways. But we have a problem wh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Allow filtration by entity type in Group Management page

We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best especially when there are so many to filter from and having all engineers keep track of all sorts of naming conventions is not simp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Functionality already exists

SmartModel support for Cisco Catalyst Rugged Series Routers (IR1800 & IR8300)

The existing NCM version lacks SmartModel driver support for Cisco Catalyst Rugged Series Routers (IR1800 & IR8300), resulting in the inability to perform backup/restore operations for a significant number of devices (200+). This limitation is...
10 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Single sign in (SSO) for DWC portal (To login for DWC main page)

We already have SSO between DWC and Master for engine but if we can impliment same for DWC main page login then it will be very usefull for end user.User will not have to login each time when they open DWC portal instead ,it will take username pas...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies. We selected the 'review first' option for temporal grouping and all temporal policies are now visible in the Suggested tab. But ideally all policie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To support HP-UX for installing agent with Unix

We wish to newly install an agent to a server whose OS is hp-ux. Currently, however, only Solaris and AIX can be chosen when we select "Unix" on the screen of "Installing Instana Agent". If you could support hp-ux as well, it'd be great for us and...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

UI configuration option for case-insensitive username with LDAP

Currently, IBM Cloud Private only accepts case-sensitive usernames from LDAP. This is atypical and confusing for users as a result, especially if they're not even aware of how their username appears in the database. It can currently be configured ...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

plug in BO update for capability to get prompt list for Pubblication Report

With the Plug in BOBJ for IWS we don't have the possibility to get prompt list . For the webi report we have the possibility but for the pubblication report no we receive this error member message not found
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration