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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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Instana Metrics Sensor for Solace Message Broker on Docker

We have more than 30 Teams using the Message Broker Technology - Solace. Some of them are central data providers, which makes this Technology a critical component in the overall the company Service & technology landscape. Operating and Monitor...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that re

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that require a length of over 45 cha.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

To avoid disk getting full due to agent retrying failed attachements (Re : INSTANA-I-1077)

Although INSTANA-I-1077 has become "Not under consideration", we'd like you to reconsider by checking our new comment (explanation on our purpose of the request). Thanks. "Hi, Henning. Thank you for your time for INSTANA-I-1077. Before you close t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under 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...
over 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...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

2 or more poll data on a same graph

There is a need to show data from at least 2 poll polices on a same graph for single device. This is necessary to provide in order to replace other vendor software usage with ITNM at customer and to keep same device usage visibility that previous ...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Adding "Tags" column to the export of "All Actions - Executed" widget

This is especially useful in praising app owners / teams who execute actions week over week. Just how we've included tags as a column in our pending actions to help pinpoint which teams have actions that need to be taken, it makes sense to incorpo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Functionality already exists

how to correlate the temporal and seasonality alarms separately

We have lots of alarms with a very high tally count. Various alarms include heartbeat, keepalive etc. Watson should distinguish between the temporal and seasonality grouping. The correlated group should freeze after some time, and shouldn't includ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Maintenance mode - No CI validation

You can easily add CI to maintenance mode Editor , but there is no validation check that the Ci exists. Example: Microsemi has quotes in Hostname “hostname”.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Export to excel option not available in Event console

You can copy/paste events into an excel, but NOC requests enhancement for the export feature to be added.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration