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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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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 8 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 12 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...
about 19 hours 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...
25 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...
25 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...
25 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

Retrieve multiple alerts AlertID values stored in a single variable when executing a right click tool

In the alert view, it is possible to select multiple alerts and execute a Right-Click tool. The expected result is that the tool returns the AlertID for all selected alerts, however it only returns one. This behaviour can be used in many scenarios...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
6 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 15 Planned for future release