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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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TADDM DB2 sensor enahancement

DB2 sensor executes db2find.sh during discovery that uses list db directory command to find out the Databases. This command lists the contents of the system database directory. In the command output there is a "Directory entry type" showing the lo...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Reminder message for user if the logging level is left outside of Info.

Oftentimes if there is an issue where a customer has to do some deep digging on an issue the logging level is changed from Info to perhaps Debug or Trace level. Sometimes mistakes are made and the logging level is not set back to Info. When this h...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add imported groups to the Groups management page

Idea: Add a new section to the Settings|Groups management page that shows imported groups and their origin Currently, when you navigate to Settings|Groups, you do not see groups that have been imported from vCenter or other targets. The imported ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add threshold for response time NFR in custom dashboards

To be able to compare the measured response time with our given non functional requirements regarding response time it would be helpful to set a constant value for the response time threshold in a time series widget in custom dashboards.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Allow stream name alias on event rule

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices API Jobs

For using IWS RESTful , webservices jobs, the user' credentials have “Basic authentication with httpsurlconnection” to connect TWS REST endpoints. Request to Add LDAP/NT/OAUTH Authentication Types to IBM Workload Scheduler - RESTful ,Webservices A...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add schedule to Trap Event Editor

Hi team, regarding the Trap Event Editor that generates an alarm message when a specific trap is received, we would like to avoid the creation of this alarm message under a schedule given (in the same way that Policy Alerts do it). In that way, we...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Add Java Sensor Support for: Jobrunr Scheduling Framework as Quartz replacement

Intoduction: Quartz used to be the standard for scheduling in java application for years. For modern applications JobRunr is the new standard and used a lot in modern applications. https://www.jobrunr.io/en/documentation/alternatives/ Problem: We ...
about 1 year ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

if we add the job in expired stream while saving it should send / flash the warning message to operator.

It should flash a warning message in TDWC/CLI while saving the job in expired jobstream, There is high possibility to add a job inside an expired stream which will be happening globally on all TWS projects.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration