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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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Ability to load Actuals to IIP via ADM

The functionality did exist, providing the ability to load Actuals to all of the Months via ADM.  Regardless if the Actuals changed or not.  This functionality does not currently exist now.  We would like to request the enhancement,...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Future consideration

When creating a DWC or MDM Database on MS SQL Server, the dbuser is ignored

When I run configureDb.vbs script to crate and populate either the DWC or MDM Database, the dbuser is ignored. cscript configureDb.vbs --work_dir C:/temp --rdbmstype MSSQL --dbname DWCDB --dbuser iwsdbuser --dbpassword ***** --dbhostname whaleshar...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

For NOIHybrid Deployment SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE should be exposed in NOIHybrid yaml file

For Customer with NOI Hybrid Deployment if OCP and Webgui are on separate Domain, user has to manually set SESSION_COIKIE_SAMESITE = "None" in Environment variable in commom-ui-uiserver deployment. for Any reason id user reconfigures the NOI hybri...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

mapping js errors for backend

Actually, the source mapping is done only on front end errors It could be intertesting to have this mapping available also on the stack traces for backend side, since we have transpilation process between javascript and typescript
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Node / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Cross-domain RCA is needed

One of three biggest telecom operator in Russia is in need of cross-domain RCA for their IBM Network Management IP system. Due to known limitation for number of elements in the ITNM domain, telecom operators have no other option, but to split netw...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Notification/ProgressBar during TokenTemplate Deletion

End user needs some sort of notification, when Token Template is being deleted. Even when there is some background action happening to remove the grouping against individual devices, end user has no clue of it. There should be log or notification,...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

once should be select Parent event without child evnts selected automatically on Alerts Page

In 1.6.9 Event Manager, when ever user selects a parent event it automatically selects the child events. This make it impossible to see the Journal or take action on parent event in the alerts page. User will have to navigate back to the event vie...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Support for "Real" data type representation in the WebGUI

We need to have a "Real" data type on our object server which we will later use for creating a custom page and line chart graph on it. On the line chart graph, we need to put a latency param and latency threshold which both are real numbers (0.8, ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration