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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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add a rm /tmp/rm$$ stanza in a rmstdlist command

because a rmstdlist command does not clean there temporary file.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Need HA capability in JDBC Gateway

Need HA capability in JDBC Gateway.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Comparison should be more granular in IT planning

Hi, our company just started to use apptio. Our IT division use IT planning at budget process and forecast process. At forecast, we create forecast plan based on original budget. Actually we would like to input forecast value while watching b...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Logging add HTTP Header into the log parameters

Hello, Here is some infos about the request. We highly use custom headers to get contextual informations about HTTP calls . For instance device type, application version etc ..Currently we can filter these informations on the view Application> ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Not under consideration

Logging Level Info

Hello, Today the feature 'Logs' provide only warning and error log levels.We would find it valuable to also have a log level info because it provides a lot of contextual infos. One thing to point out is that if log levels info would be tracked in ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

INSTANA Agent to detect external intrusion

Hi, Could you manage the implementation of a feature where the INSTANA agent will be able to detect a tentative of intrusion on a host or some malware trying to use a vulnerability in the application.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Instana: Built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert needs to take active/inactive memory into consideration

The existing built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert in Instana is unusable and I will be using Turbonomic instead. The below SuSE Linux URL supports this stand as well. SuSE Support: Memory management best practices URL: https://www.suse.com/sup...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Parse json formatted logs to generate fields and extract log level

We're writing lot's of logs in json format as this is very helpful with other log management solutions (Graylog2, Datadog) to parse these logs into fields and have very searchable data. This would be necessary for us to further use Instana Log ana...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Variance Analysis Report

There needs to be a report available in IT-Planning or CT to display the summary of Variance Analysis.  1) Summary of Analysis or comments that users provided 2) Summary of users that missed to update the Analysis even after the threshold for...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration