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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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OracleDB - adding support for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set

Hi, We have a need for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set to be added to the OracleDB sensor because we have customers who are using this character set which is not supported by default and because of that they will not have end-to-end visibility of t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Dependencies/Flow tab Optimization to view data for a week

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down . Ability to show...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Capture details on request payload

Need ability to capture details on request payload this helps to troubleshoot issues without need for applications to log the same. Feature available with competitors. Please refer to - https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/4.5.x/en/application-monito...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

MCM to enable an Option to provision a cluster from MCM UI

MCM to enable an Option to provision a cluster from MCM UI
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

MCM to provide the choice of BYOC (Bring your own CA signed certificate) for OCP Child Cluster on AWS

Provisioned cluster (VIA MCM) certificate is self-signed and while accessing the cluster it doesn't allow the access if you are in blue network (Ideally cluster provisioning mechanism should ask the user to provide CA signed certificate for the cl...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

DWC - Manage Engine function was not enabled for Developer and Operator role to create Engine

DWC server - ttfai740OS Version - AIX 7.2.0.0DWC version - 9.5 FP02 Manage Role Section --> Only Administrator role have access to "Manage Engine" function, there are many application teams in our environment, we had plan to assign Developer an...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Documented API twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun

We use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/action/rerun which is well documented but we need alos to use the twsd/plan/current/job/" + jobIdentifier + "/jobsuccessors/sublist/action/rerun API which not documented. This AP...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Multi-Tenancy to support multiple customers with one CP4MCM Instance

Requirements: Ability to execute / trigger tasks / actions via (e.g. Ansible, etc. ) across multiple customers environments and received the results from multiple customers and display them on the CP4MCM Ability to provide the necessary RBAC struc...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 3 Future consideration

Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

Add customizable columns to the event page

It would be nice to have customizable columns on the events list.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration