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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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We need a force option added to wappman

We are thinking about working with wappman to move our workload to the higher environments. After some testing and figuring out how we can incorporate it into our current way of working, we notice we are missing a "force" option to bypass the warn...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Services

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Ansible Tower backed Services. (ServiceAnsibleTower). In previous versions, the output of the Ansible Tower Job would display in in Services -> My Services -> <service name>. This no longer the ca...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Miss page_sets parameters in Instana thresholds

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors MQ pages (percentiles and total) with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situa...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need additional statuses of Queue Manager

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager statuses to monitor: "UNKNOWN" "REPOSITORY_ANAVAILABLE""QUIESCE""SUSPENDED""NOT_RESPONDING" These statuses our customer monitors with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Requesting visibility of NICs under windows teaming

When viewing Windows server with NIC teaming, sometimes it is necessary to know what ports and NIC cards are represented by the single logical connection.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Display the actual state of a resource in an "Unavailable" state

In legacy PMC, today, we would mark a resource in an "Unavailable" state because the actual state of this resource is not explicitly mapped. This is an issue for the user because it is unclear what error state this resource is in and so there is n...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Make the 4 minutes fixed deadline of ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART flexible or provide a new option

We need to be able to add a waiting time to the ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART setting in a stream, this is now hard coded to 4 minutes.OrProvide us with a new option, something like ONOVERLAP CANCEL. Which would cancel itself automatically when the next in...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add more options for "start" time for Release Markers API.

Using Cloud Pak for Integration, our CI/CD Pipeline uses ArgoCD and Argo Notifications. Argo Notifications does not support UNIX timestamp in milliseconds. Only seconds or microseconds. It would be very helpful if for example the Releases API coul...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

We are interested in NFM-P probe for NSP 21.3

Customers are upgrading to NSP 21.3 for better features and security. A certified probe is required for the same.
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration