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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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Enable INSTANA auto-tracing for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Hi Team, I am creating this ticket as a follow-up of https://support.instana.com/hc/en-us/requests/23465. We at Arlo are using Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), a fully managed, highly available caching service built for Amazon DynamoDB. With cur...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

IWS/IWA Filewatch JOBStream improvment

The client is using the Filewatch capabilities to manage input files coming from external partners/clients. During a normal day they need to manage the following situations: - No file received - a single file received - Multiple file received They...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Create SFTP-FTP for Webi Report Advanced Parameters

Customer ask to create SFTP-FTP plug-in for Webi Report Advanced ParametersIs needed for FTA : FTA041LP_1 (PRD) and FTA040LT_1 (TEST) are all in 9.5 versionHe needs to send via SFTP report created on BO Marco Borgianni was involved on this topic.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Create an Instana agent sensor for CP4D

While Instana can generically monitor the infrastructure, OCP cluster and services that make up CP4D, it does not collect and visualize any specific internal CP4D metrics. Instana agents use sensors to monitor various technology components which c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Script output monitoring using Instana (similar to IBM APM)

IBM APM customers can currently run scripts and monitor the output using regexpressions and create alerts on certain conditions. Similar capability is required in Instana to run scripts periodically and process the output. Example: Run a simple sc...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Kill Zombie Jobs: Add functionality to be able to recover from a corrupted Jobtable on an FTA

When an FTA crashes and gets a corrupted Jobtable and the Jobtable must be removed, jobs that were in EXEC status before the crash remain in EXEC state and take run slots against the server limit, and job stream limit if applicable, even after the...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Show amount of members in a stack

View the number of members of a stack in the display windowStackable switches (up to 8 members in a stack)2960X, 2960S, 2960XR of 2960 series3850 series3650 series9000 series #show switchSwitch/Stack Mac Address : H/W CurrentSwitch# Role Mac Addre...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

TADDM should create IpDevice for ALL IPs that respond to ping

Expectations are that all active IPs will be detected by TADDM, and at a minimum IpDevice will be created. We have detected this is not happening today. Today, TADDM only detects devices with certain TCP ports active. RFE is to enhance the PingSen...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration