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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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Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
about 15 hours ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Make it a rightsizing preference option to allow changes to/from confidential SKUs

Currently the rightsizing engine does not provide the capability to control recommendations between confidential and non-confidential SKUs in Azure. I can't imagine many customers want to flip flop between the two types of SKU as Microsoft prices ...
about 16 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Apptio Views manually managed. Provide the ability to link Views to roles or their Active Directory Groups.

We require Views to be linked to AD roles so that we can manage the cost data privileges that our users hold in the Apptio suite without having to do as we are currently, where for example a user will get a role 'user' or 'admin' and we have to ex...
about 17 hours ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Add to DWC "TEXT EDIT" option to IWS Workload Designer , similar to the layout of composer

As discussed with Marco and DWC level 3 development team , last week. We would like to see an enhancement to DWC Workload Designer where we can have the option of " Text Editor" , so the IWS object we have chosen is displayed similar to the compos...
about 18 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
about 21 hours ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
1 day ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Managing policies through APIs

The temporal training resulted in a really large set of insights, with over 50 thousand results. As the operators review the generated policies, we need enable, disable, or achive policies frequently. However, doing that through the UI is really t...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

More options to setup conditions for triggering policies

We have a few automations in place and in development which must be triggered by specific actions on AIOps, which are currently not supported by the application. Right now, we need to trigger the policy for each and every alert update, and then ch...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Expand supported limit of concurrent users in the UI

We have a large operation currently relying on Netcool's WebGUI. It is a large telecom company with a network of continental proportions. The operations and other teams that frequently accesses the UI to view alarms are currently around 100 concur...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Under review