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Add sound notification for Alert Viewer

Users were able to configure audible notifications in WebGUI's Event Viewer. Depending on event criteria, the event viewer would play a preset or custom sound alerting the user that a new or updated event has appeared. This functionality does not ...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Updating Alerts

Keep alerts up to date is incredibly painful. People come and go and roles change. The process to ensure alerts are going to the right key stakeholders is incredibly painful. I have several suggestions. Option 1. Ability to keep alerts automatical...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Viewing IBMMQ Channel Maximum Connection Count Metric

Based on the case TS020305515, Customer would need to see the maximum connection count of IBMMQ on the Instana UI metrics and to be able to create event based on maximum connection count but not the connection count only (which is already presente...
11 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

ojdbc11.jar support with Netcool/Omnibus JDBC Gateway

The Oracle Reporter DB uses Kerberos authentication and ojdbc8*.jar's are not supported with Kerberos, hence ojdbc11.jar is needed and JDBC Gateway is not supportive at the moment and get below error, Error: E-GJA-000-000: [ngjava]: G_JDBC: Thread...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Number of months until x date

The idea would be to have a dynamic counter, to make some advanced calculated metrics. The example is the running rate that needs to be achieved until the end of the contract.
21 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

add a action capability to run a javascript in RBA

please add action capability to RBA , so you can manipulate data/variables, in order to comply with a next action's input requirement the idea would be to allow for Javascript code to me added.ideally in a required format. and an expected output c...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

More granular options

Current anomaly detection scope at subscription level is too broad for practical use. We would like to see anomaly detections based on resource groups, instead of subscription. Because subscription is too big. Right now we can't use this feature. ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review