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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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SAIOM - make it possible to authenticate on port 443 to eliminate non-secure connections

This will eliminate vulnerabilities related to non-secure connections on port 21 to the OSA-ICCs on System Z. If this cannot be remediated, we are forced to discontinue use of the product.
2 days ago in Tivoli System Automation 0 Submitted

Install new Job types / Plug-ins into your distributed IWS Domain directly from the DWC

Leverage the power of the Automation Hub directly from your IWS Dynamic Workload Console to build more robust, agile, and future-ready automation solutions. With over 150 plug-ins the Automation Hub is rapidly expanding and allowing customers to i...
5 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Submitted

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
7 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

remedial for non-compliant interfaces

A compliance policy was created to assess interface configuration of specific trunk interfaces, but no remedial can be created to address non-compliant interfaces and make the device configuration compliant.
about 5 hours ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Submitted

Request for FortiGate Firewall Monitoring in Instana

We’d like to monitor our FortiGate firewall (version 7.4.7) with Instana, but we couldn’t find anything in the documentation about native support for FortiGate or firewall monitoring in general. Our firewall is a key part of our infrastructure, so...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
about 12 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

API to programmatically set default dashboard and view for users based on roles

We currently have to go to the Users and Groups page to reset default dashboard and view for users manually. There should be an API to be set this programatically based on the user roles.
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

The old UI had a "Targets" category in the search function that was useful, but the new UI does not. Please restore the ability to search targets.

It was useful to be able to do a search on targets
about 24 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

It will be good if we have some options to set default values through quick add

When we are adding some data through quick add or some inside any entity, targetprocess should allow us to set the default planned startdate to "current date".
about 24 hours ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Instana for Zos with CTG on Linux

Hi, We are currently deploing our CTG on Linux (out side of the zOS) and we are planning to use instana for Zos. Can you provide support for the CTG on linux with instana for Zos so we would be capable to trace for CTG to zos workload. Regards, Be...
1 day ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted