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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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Feature to set the limit based on the number of failed attachments (Instana)

[How it is now] When an agent fails to execute its attachment (attachment error in occurrence of some event such as full GC), the agent continues to retry the attachment every 10 minutes repeatedly until it succeeds. [What's needed] It'd be great ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

List workstations in dynamic pool the same way as its possible for pools in TDWC/TWS

When using dynamic pools with "ordered list" it's difficult for operators to see which workstations that are active/defined in the pools.Should be possible to answer questions like:1. Is the agent part of a pool2. which agents is in a poolRFE 2254...
about 12 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Runcycle offset, extended math

Allow offsets of runcycles to be layered, as in recursive. Starting from a runcycle frequency statement or calendar, allow it to be nested inside offsets by day, weekdays, workdays, other runcycle frequencies or calendars. For example, to run on t...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Normalize Manufacturer and Model fields CDM

Normalize the Manufacturer and Model fields in the TADDM DB, so we can use the values to find enhanced information on the product.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

HashiCorp integration with IWS for secure connection between DB and IWS master

There should be a way to intigrate HashiCorp with IWS .We saw security team in organation asking to use Hashicorp to secure the connection/authentication between IWS master and oracle database as we are using XML file to pass password/Username (ev...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Fix Message Bus Probe Inability to Handle Multiple Topics

When the Message Bus Probe is connected to multiple topics and a single topic has corrupt data, the probe fails for all topics, rendering the entire probe useless. This forces us to create separate probes for each individual topic and separate pro...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Script to create a group of VMs who's percentile CPU utilization is under a specified threshold

Citigroup reqeusted for a cusmtom script to create a group of VMs who's percentile CPU utilization is under a specified threshold. This should also enable downloading a csv of the same members as well as selecting other commodities like Mem
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0