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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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Password expiration process for Netcool Omnibus

The Netcool Omnibus does not have password expiration policy or feature for FID that resides in Object server. At present, password is changed by ISA team member who belongs to “Administrator” or “System” group “. The ISA team member shares the sc...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

Application Batch process Monitoring

Instana Application monitoring services are not reporting the data statistics as expected. Basically the service in question is a database one which is running on DB2 db. Whenever a batch execution happens there's a bunch of calls being made by th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Agent Monitoring AMQP status

Currently MQ sensor only support channel status and MQTT channel status, AMQP type is not supported yet. So you will see it in channel table, but channel status is not in the same table with common channels. MQ's output of dis chstatus(*) and dis ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

IIS Reset dependency for .net framework application

For the IIS hosted applications as per the Instana documentation it is required to perform IIS reset to properly instrument application. We want to eliminate the dependency to perform IIS reset.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Make "In Error Predecessors" column clickable/to drill through the jobs via Monitor Critical Jobs in Dynamic Workload Console

Monitor Critical Jobs in DWC just shows the number of abend predecessor jobs in "In Error Predecessors" column. It will be better if the column is made clickable similar to "Not Completed Predecessors" so the errored predecessor jobs can be viewed...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add Entity Aspects to SaaS Reporting

In recreating some of the Embedded Reporting dashboards used in the field, there are cases where aspect data was used in the reports. It would be great to see many of these aspects added to the SaaS reporting for clients to be able to have access ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Government System Use Warning

We have been going through our annual assessment for ATO the last few weeks and one of the artifacts that we needed to present is a screenshot of a “Government System Use” warning for Instana. I’m sure you have run across something like this in th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Scope - Host availability detection

under System rule "Host availability detection", we would like have option for Scope setting, for instance Selected entitites by Zone or by Host Name.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Azure pacemaker not compatible or supported by IBM for Workload Automation.

We have the IWS masters and Agents(SAP) on Azure cloud. As we are using IBM DB2 for master as primary database, DBA team uses IBM pacemaker for the high availability and redundancy. But on the SAP clients, SAP team uses Azure Pacemaker for the hig...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review