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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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Retain filter when changing currency

When I change currency in ITP it removes my column filters.  Please retain column filters when changing currencies.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Publish from Labor Activity Tab

When publishing from the labor activity tab, there is no indication or confirmation of what they are pushing.  Would be good to  provide an indicator of what you are publishing (FTE or Hours) or provide a choice/box to select 
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Instana email notification does not include status and other important fields for alert condition

Client has reported that the email content does not include alert payload e.g. threshold, metric, status. Lack of status field does not let client effectively use email notifications for additional processing of the event. Request is to add all al...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Instana tracing support for monitoring Dynamics AX 2012 ERP

Performance monitor our Dynamics AX 2012 R3 solution, which are our ERP system, and primary data accumulator. We want a special focus on SQL performance. The software running our Dynamics AX solutions is: Dynamics AX AOS server (.net application),...
10 months ago in Instana / .NET / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

XenServer ITCAM does not collect CPU and Memory utilization metrics

Hi Support team, this idea is follow-up for the Case TS004347982. XenServer ITCAM does not collect CPU and Memory utilization data from Citrix XenServer Management API. We received the following suggestion from L3 support: Citrix eventually admit ...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Training Cloud Pak for AIOps with Historical data from Netcool Reporter

From legacy Netcool customer who has the historical alarms stored in DB2 Reporter Database To incentivize upgrade to Cloud Pak for AIOps, the existing Historical Alarms in DB2 Reporter Database can bring existing "Knowledge" into the new AIOps as ...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AWS Observer Configuration Requires Support for the New Regions Added by AWS

From the Documentation at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/nasm/1.1.20?topic=ui-configuring-aws-observer-jobs. Under the AWS Observer Load Job Parameters, the Region configuration is currently a Drop-Down Selection of Regions supported by AWS However A...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

OMEGAMON Data Provider support

We are in the middle of a project to rebuild our event management solution. The target architecture should be based on Watson AIOPs and the OMEGAMON Data Provider will deliver data to the Watson AIOps Metric Manager. For this we need the OMEGAMON ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration