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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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Rename 'Current Transfers' to 'Current Active Transfers'

When file transfers are going on, and the Instana UI is in live mode, the 'Current Transfers' metric on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard always remains '0' (see the yellow highlight on the screen shot). On the other hand, the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Show status change history of MFT transfers

Our customer needs to track their MFT file transfers and they need to have insights in when file transfers change their status from Started to Progress and finally Successful or Failed. So we need some kind of table that lists all the status chang...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 2 Planned for future release

Making it easy to identify SqlInjection

For HTTP calls performed by GET, when a SqlInjection or other types of intrussions, one of the parameters in the query string contains the atack command (SQL or OS). In the application perspective, it is possible to filter by the partial content ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Java Gateway for JDBC 2 requires to respond with nco_ping

IBM Netcool/OMNIbus Java Gateway for JDBC 2 currently does not listen on the port where omni.dat defines. This is not like other traditional gateway. so that the gateway is not nco_ping-able. Sometimes, this feature is required for a cold standby ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improve readability of Component Comparison results

Configuration Comparison is essential capability of the TADDM product. However, the result that is generated when using this functionality is usually full of 'Last Stored Time' results - these occur for every comparable component because they are ...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to a fully encrypted Sybase database

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to fully encrypted Sybase databases.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Add possibility to analyze deployed version if different technologies

As Instana is capturing the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis). We did try to analyze the deploye...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Modify how DA launches a job to mimic how FTA launches the same job

FTA launches a job by first launching jobmanrc and then if LOCAL_RC_OK is set to true, it launches .jobmanrc in the logon user's home dir. In this process, it never sets the variable PATH. A DA launches a job by first launching taskLauncher.sh and...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration