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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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ITM TEP Desktop client - additional information/message on logon screen before login

As per requirements monitoring team is obliged to add additional information on TEP desktop client logon screen, before user gets authenticated. Please refer to TS003840030.
over 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Start / StopCommand is not issued to the resources with Unknown state, during start / stop of resource group or takeover.

"StartCommand / StopCommand is not issued to the resources with Unknown state, during starting / stopping of resource group or takeover" This request comes from the PMR - 04264,616,760The request is for a change to issue StartCommand / StopCommand...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

TNPM. Dynamic Y-axis and threshold line for Resource DetailedReport

TNPM. This problem is actual for the Customer because it is not comfortable to work with report when metric values ​​are less than 10%, and threshold is 80%. Everything is very small on such graph. Besides threshold value is useless on graph if me...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Topology, Runbooks and CNEA Databases in Hybrid DR setup should be replicated automatically

Currently Automatic Data Replication is only supported in Full Cloud statck Deployment of Event Manager in Watson AIOPS, but In Hybrid Implementation still requires manual effort to back and restore process to sync two Clusters. Since fundamentall...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

OpenResty Alpine Module Build for Nginx tracing 1.19.9

Customer is trying to monitor kong.They currently use image based on an alpine image: https://hub.docker.com/layers/kong/library/kong/2.5.1-alpine/images/sha256-6896f87b90dcea49ee7009a9963a709e5644ebf0dff8491d2c010bf7fab6a974?context=exploreT...
almost 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Plugin Powercenter - try to reconnect in case of broken connection

When we submit Powercenter jobs, if the connection between IWS and Powercenter is broken by any external reason the jobs currently end in error on IWS, but continue to execute on Powercenter. Therefore the user always needs to enter on Powercenter...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

The ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page so it propagates to all the graphs – like the limited default selections do now.

Ability to view data within a specific scope.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists