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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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Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

NOI CNEA capability to group across object servers

Netcool Operations Insight - Cloud Event Analytics - Hybrid Deployment Telco Netcool clients with network with a great number of devices use to have a 3 tier Netcool deployment and because the huge number of alarms creates more then 1 pair of obje...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Omegamon TEPS needs to be aware of FTO HUB failover automatically

Apparently every piece of the Omegamon suite is aware of when an FTO HA HUB fails over to the hot standby, except the TEPS. This is a dramatic impact to functionality since this means that manual configurations changes are needed to the TEPS EVERY...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Future consideration

Ability to add Cell wise comment on the IT-Plannning Expenses page

Users have demanded an ability to add cell wise comments similar to Microsoft Excel. For e.g. If a expense has T&M billing then each cell will have a different forecast value and the user needs the ability to save comment on each cell. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Modify how DA launches a job to mimic how FTA launches the same job

FTA launches a job by first launching jobmanrc and then if LOCAL_RC_OK is set to true, it launches .jobmanrc in the logon user's home dir. In this process, it never sets the variable PATH. A DA launches a job by first launching taskLauncher.sh and...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhance the Workload Widget to show where new workloads are coming from to properly estimate and manage Turbo licenses.

There is a widget called Workload Improvement – and it has 3 types, On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid. I think it would be VERY useful if we add various parameters to this graph (focusing mostly on cloud) 1)Provider (aws, gcp, azure0 2) Subscription (Acco...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to a fully encrypted Sybase database

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to fully encrypted Sybase databases.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration