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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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Show interface bundle (link aggregation) mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports

Allows troubleshooting of bundle (link aggregation) related issues. Show interface bundle mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports, for example "Network Device Summary" and "Network Performance Report".
12 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add Filter Check Boxes to SDN Fault Widget

The customer stated on a few occasions that "in its current state it is not usable," referring to the SDN Fault Messages widget in Data Insight. The corresponding page in the Cisco APIC GUI has check boxes to hide acknowledged faults and hide dele...
12 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Feature Request - Internet Explorer 7 Compatibility for Instana

We are requesting the implementation of a new feature in Instana to ensure compatibility with Internet Explorer 7. Our current configuration involves code injection at the F5 level, transitioning from the previous IIS level injection Observations:...
12 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name. I
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Variance Analysis grouped by Account Category Code but showing Account Category Name

As Variance Analysis is grouped by Account Category Code but showing Account Category Name it can create lines that look like duplicates to end user.  If different Account Category Codes share the same Account Category Name, currently a separ...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

ScopeID and Policy information on Alerts detail

Customer wants to have more datail about how alerts are grouped and what policy was used for that. This help to improve policies and it's configurations, and a better understanding when they are troubleshooting incidents.
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Instana fix pack upgrade directly from one version to any version should be possible

Currently we are using 1.239 version which is 6 months old than the latest version 1.263. Currently Instana doesn't support direct upgrade from one version to any version. We have to upgrade atleast 6 times to reach to the latest version 1.263. In...
12 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Instana Health / Issue State queryable via API or Grafana Metrics

Introduction:-------------We have several Teams, which use internal Dashboard-Tools, which query multiple data sources (new-relic, check_mk, Prometheus, Splunk, etc., Openshift).These Tools make use of Health checks and Meta Informations.While mig...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration