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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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Percentage calculation between two filters

Hello, I wanted to submit an idea for a feature as i came across different usecases that could be fulfilled with instana's data. The idea would be to be able to calculate a percentage between two filters and be able to :- display it on a dashboard...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Planned for future release

Placeholder support for ComputerSystems not fully discovered

Option to set the isPlaceholder attribute to True for ComputerSystems that have not been fully discovered to provide a easy way to decide whether the discovered data can be considered complete or not
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

MessageBus Probe / Webhook : check the message and respond if the message is not of a specific format

The MessageBus Probe comes with the property "validateBodySyntax" which checks if the body is in XML or JSON format. It would be great to have another property to tell the Probe to respond to the sender with an HTTP Error if the message doesn't re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Config option to change the frequency of db requests

We are using the Instana Agent with the PostgreSQL sensor.With the log analyzer pgBadger and pg_stat_statements we noticed that the Instana sensor queries the database every other second which puts them on top of the most time consuming queries in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Subnet flows in bulk

In menu Administrator > Flow configuration > Network Segment Manager This feature can add subnet one by one but the customer has more than 10K subnet, It very hard to add these one by one So I need to NMS can add/edit/delete also can multipl...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Functionality already exists

Follow VM start & stop order on vSphere policy

After vSphere v6.7,  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-7A132146-2779-4F4B-B39D-EE4F129DB79C.html There is a feature that allows administrators to control the order in which VMs are started and stopp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Request an add-on managing SAP Financial Closing Cockpit

The business want Workload Scheduler to manage SAP Financial Closing Cockpit processes just as it does all other SAP jobs. They would like a seamless tool to automate all SAP processes. SAP Financial Closing Cockpit Add-On supports integration wit...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Optimize handling of unconnected Dynamic agents

When Dynamic Agents are not connected anymore (for whatever reason) they will generate a "message-bomb" causing the WAS to get overloaded and get stuck. I've already reported this issue in case TS003762963 (which was closed with a reference to how...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

request with "override depencies"

Today it's not possible to stop a resource that has a stopAfter relationship to an online resource without touching this resource. In SA z/OS you can create requests with parm "Override Dependency". Then, TSA ignores all depencencies.You would lik...
about 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration