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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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AIOps Topology template to filter on elements' alert status

When creating dynamic templates, we sometimes run into issue that the resulting resource groups are quite huge (1000+ elements). From an operator's perspective, the focus is usually on resources having issues (alerts). We'd therefore like to have ...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Customisable legend in AIOps Topology Viewer

Looking at the screenshot attached, we are using some custom background and border colors. Within the topology view, there is a legend, which explains to the users, what the icons and colors in a topology visualisation mean. Having a customisable ...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

extend Netcool OMNIbus message_bus jms transport layer to parse jms header meta data

actually the Netcool Message_Bus probe jms transport layer only parses the jms message payload data, but not the jms message header data. The jms header data contains important information like message-id, timestamps, object-uri, etc. which is imp...
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
6 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
15 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
20 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
20 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
20 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Import Score cards data into Apptio BI

Customers can use the Score cards data into Apptio BI and drive Gamification initiative in theor organization. They can share the Dashboard to multiple users and team
4 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Submitted