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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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Allow configuration of the "No responses received for > 10 seconds" value

Request to allow the configuration of the default 10 second value when an agent is disconnected from the SAAS instana Dashboard. We have experienced on occasion network convergences or brief unexpected outages at which point our Instana's Agents l...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Is a defect

Validate Symphony file prior distribution

We have recently experienced several issues during the IWS new plan load. Most likely related to Job Streams into ADD status. In order to prevent such impacts for many clients we do support (+40 Global Clients) we'd like to suggest a new process w...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Use the same Channel/Subscription model for apps running in VM-based infra too

MCM and the coming RH ACM are both container friendly solutions, which bring in a unified and simplified Channel/Subscription model to deploy and manage applications within managed Kubernetes clusters across cloud providers. But the vision of CP4M...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Planned for future release

Oracle SAM policy to support multiple databases

TSAMP is used for keeping Oracle highly available, but currently only supports one database (one database in the SAP-licensed Oracle policy).
over 7 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

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

Discovery Console - History Panel Enhancement

Some basic enhancements within the history panel in the Discovery Console: 1: The user can currently select multiple discovery entries from the top panel. The discovery details in the bottom panel should be updated to reflect details for all selec...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 6 Not under consideration

IWS/IWA distributed engine improved variable management

The customer that is an historical IWS for z/OS client is implementing their first distributed engine environment. During this implementation they discovered that the IWS distributed engine does not provide a common variable management between the...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future 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

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

Netcool MessageBus password encryption

Within the MessageBus gateway (and probably probe) configs at $OMNIHOME/java/conf require passwords to be included like in KafkaClient.properties but does not allow those passwords to be encrypted, only the gateway.props can be. We need to be able...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration