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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 Windows Active Directory group (Security Group) to Instana

As per support case #27832, We asked to add AD group to instana to provide the permission to groups, but that feature is not available it seems, please check to add AD group for providing permissions.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Make action script population context aware

Turbonomic reads an existing manifest to determine where to make an action script visible when orchestrating an action. However, it only considers the phase and does not consider the entity being orchestrated. That means you can have an action scr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Capture custom HTTP request headers for outgoing calls

Background/Context We have a strong need to track http request headers on outgoing calls as part of detailed monitoring of a 3rd party integration. Feature request Support HTTP request headers for exit spans. In our case we need this for the follo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Show all information of the selected time period in the Kubernetes views

If a time period is selected and the user want to view Events and Pods of an kubernetes object (Deployment/Service/etc.) Instana only shows the Pods and the Events of the Pods that were "online" at the endpoint of the time period. For many users t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

extract more then one group with regex in the omnibus-probe

Regex support multiple groups but not in the Omnibus-probe. I have test it and only the fist group is shown. Example. $input="testTEST1testTEST2test" $output=extract($inpunt,"test(.*)test(.*)test") $output will show "TEST1" But I like to see " TES...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Capability to customize NPI Network Performance Overview Dashboard

Capability to customize Network Performance Overview Dashboard on NPI to remove some of the statistic that are not use.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2 Not under consideration

Documented API twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun

We use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/action/rerun which is well documented but we need alos to use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun API which not documented. This AP...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to save & restore, clone Event & Alert configurations or create templates

Use cases: - When Events and Alerts are created, users would benefit to have ability to save configuration as a template to use as baseline for other events - save configuration to be able to revert back to after trying some changes - as a work ar...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration