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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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AIOps 4.4.1 should support Operator and Operand to be in different namespaces

Single Namespace install –The AIOPS 4.4.1 platform does not allow the Operator and Operand to exist in separate namespaces. inturn causing limitation of having Only one instance of AIOps instance in the cluster.
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for Openshift Virt VM provisioning in self-service catalogue

Our customer is using MCMP to self-service deploy VMs in both VMware and Red Hat Virtualization. Now as Red Hat is moving to Openshift Virt they are asking for the functionality to self-service deploy VMs in Openshift Virt
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Planned for future release

IBM to provide observer for NetBrain

NetBrain is used by us for mapping network topologies and so it would be useful for ASM to be able to import such topology data into ASM through the use of an observer. NetBrain Automation Features (netbraintech.com)
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Instana UI - show approximation level for on sampled data

show approximation level (100%, 10%, 1%) and samping logic in-a-nutshell in Analytic View while sampling is active
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

We want to control how often we access AzureStorage

We are experiencing problems with AzureStorage monitoring using Instana. The problem is that excessive access to AzureStorage causes "TooManyAccess" errors. According to Azure support, this error is over access from a subscription perspective and ...
11 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Need instana support for tracing of SAP MES (base on NetWeaver)

Background: CATL(www.catl.com) has ranked first in global power battery usage for 7 consecutive years, with Y23 Rev of over CNY 400 billion and net profit of over CNY 40 billion. It is an absolute industry leader and has an influential power on th...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

We would like event rules to trigger off of object changes in the database and in the plan

We would like to allow application teams to perform updates in our production environment and we would like to have an event rule trigger when objects are updated in the database and/or in the plan and then send the following information either th...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Not under consideration

About number of schema items constraints

Hello. I heard that IT Planning's number of schema must be under 60.Actually our company IT Planning's Asset Line Item have 58 items.We would like to use more items if it is possible.Is it possible to increase number of schema items from 60 to mor...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration