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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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Give Teams option to hide their services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Deny-listing)

Give Teams option to hide there services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Blacklisting) Futher improving the granularity of the RBAC in Instana
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to create a compliance policy with parameter(s) in compliance manager

Goal is to create a compliance policy where you can set values for validation and remediation on execution.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Ability to use SSO/SAML over Azure Cloud with Dynamic Workload Console

We are currently using DWC 9.5 FP5 and would like the capability to use Azure SSO/SAML for authentication of our user groups. We were able to get pretty far in the process in that, we could: Enable SAML 2.0 via the server.xml file Connect to our S...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Agent keyword in joblogs are only present on Dynamic agents, should be on all agent types.

We are using ondemand and splunk to collect joblogs for debug and historical reasons.But since joblogs are different regarding the agent keyword in the joblog it makes it difficult to search and compare, since agent keyword is missing in many jobl...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Provide a means of formatting time properties in Webhook workflows

As a user I would like the ability to format time properties for webhooks as Unix epoch milliseconds rather than iso8601, so I can store the action times in an external systems and plot them on a timeline, allowing me to correlate when the Turbono...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to retrieve the Instana agent configuration file content in the Instana Agent UI

When troubleshooting Instana agent configurations then it is necessary to have SSH access to the host or Kubernetes cluster. If the UI had this feature then I could get the configuration file with a click of a button which would speeds up troubles...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Allow Impact role 'impactWebServiceUser' to be able to run API Calls

Currently only one user group 'impactAdminUser' is a having access to run REST API in Netcool/Impact. Role 'impactAdminUser' has elevated permissions and dont want this permissions for users who just want to run REST API calls. Could you please se...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

MessageBus Probe / Webhook : check the message and respond if the message is not of a specific format

The MessageBus Probe comes with the property "validateBodySyntax" which checks if the body is in XML or JSON format. It would be great to have another property to tell the Probe to respond to the sender with an HTTP Error if the message doesn't re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Export of TADDM discovered component

The export of one discovered component in one TADDM environment (e.g. production) to another TADDM environment (e.g. development) doesn't work No PMR number but a case number TS000037748
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 3 Not under consideration

Config option to change the frequency of db requests

We are using the Instana Agent with the PostgreSQL sensor.With the log analyzer pgBadger and pg_stat_statements we noticed that the Instana sensor queries the database every other second which puts them on top of the most time consuming queries in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration