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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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Ability to limit the about of old discovery data returned by healthcheck

Add ability to limit the about of old discovery data returned by healthcheck.
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Snmpv3 - notification for unknown EngineID

It is necessary to develop functionality so that the snmp probe identifies snmpv3 traps, for which EngineID isn't set in the config file. And for that traps, we need the probe to send a notification that informs us to update the config file with n...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them

Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them. Users will be able to keep an eye on all used thrid party services in one place.New Relic and other products also provide this service. See https:...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Azure HyperScale DBs have read-only replicas which are very expensive. Can Turbo provide recommendations for the number of these?

Azure HyperScale Databases have the option for read-only replicas. These can cost $1000+/mo in addition to the cost of the main db. Is there a way that Turbo can recommend how many of these read-only replicas are needed to maintain performance but...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

RTEMS IBInterface doStageTwoProcess messages to be sent to the MSG2 log

Currently the Stage 2 messages are sent to the RTEMS RAS log, which roll and are overwritten the frequency and speed of which is determined by the amount of tracing that is enabled. These messages : (64D867A4.0008-7:ko4crtsq.cpp,6936,"IBInterface:...
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Signing Instana agent images

Instana agent images should be digitally signed to verify content integrity.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Limiting host agent CPU installed using Archive (tar.gz) technology

The agent is being installed using the static host agent tar.gz file provided by the Backend, the compress file is copied and extracted on the target host. Then, the agent is configured as needed. Using the archive technology (tar.gz) you can limi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Workload Scheduler support for linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses"

see ticket IBM support request TS005150482:IBM Workload Scheduler 9.5 Fixpack 3 - with linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses" every TWS command freezes------------------------------------------environment:TWS Client Version 5 Fickpack 03operatingSy...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration