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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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Per job E2E accounting from mainframe should be possible without DB2

To support and offer better solutions to our customers we would like to use the "per job accounting" from the mainframe without having the DB2 history database installed. Some of our mainframe customers have several servers installed and could be ...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Enable SSL on Objectserver IDUC port

IDUC traffic is not secure. Currently Objectserver IDUC port listening parameter only give possibility to set port number, without SSL. It should be option the same as objectserver port (4101 SSL) for IDUC communcation
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Top database & container pod information bulk download function

If we download from the Top Virtual Machines widget, we can download all virtual machine information at once.However, in the case of Top Container Pods , workload Controllers , Container Specs , Namespace , Databases,We can only download 50 pieces...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support for getting Logs through API

In Instana we are able to get all data from the API but the logs. We need to expose an API to extract logs. This would also help to extend retention of logs outside Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

OMNIbus Probe/Gateway for Kafka Integration with Confluent Kafka

The Probes/Gateways for Kafka Integration has been certified, with Apache Kafka and IBM Event Streams. IBM event streams is deprecated and we are positioning only Confluent Kafka as part of Cloud Pak for Integration. So certification for Confluent...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Team / Org Seperation needed from CloudAutomationManager to AnsibleTower

Customers are setting up a single CAM / Tower system and want to be able to separate the templates and what templates each team can see. Team A: access to tower templates in project ATeam B: access to tower templates in project B Today the teams...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

net-disco extension Scope.Special and management subnets

Dear IBM, provide options to configure management subnet by using scope.special
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

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