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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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Update TADDM API to support iSeries discovery using PKI

As TADDM can use the SSH Public Key Infrastructure to authenticate the access to Unix or Linux target systems, why is this not possible to set up for iSeries machines ?To quote from the Sensor log "TADDM does not support the discovery of IBM i sys...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Mouse over on link or device icon in ncp_gis [NetKitMapWidget.jsp] shows fixed data. Add Custom Fields

the columns in the event or topology list are fixed. All that can be altered is whether or not the current columns are displayed, you can't alter the filter to display other columns. So we need some facilitation or enabled to add user specific fields
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

Correlation-id based logging approach when provisioning infrastructure

New correlation-id should be created for each API call/request and should be carried forward to the subsequent internal calls to the other microservices. All logs should be prefixed with the correlation-id (supported by many logging libraries) In ...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

TWS event rule to monitor files in a Folder

TWS event rule needs to monitor file changes in certain folder and submit a job for sync in other server. For Example Master server's methods folder will be having its connected SAP server's .opts file. If any changes happens to any of the .opts f...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Nightly Plans Cluster Resize (By Host)

A customer is looking for additional information to be made available from our Nightly Plans run. They would like to include a Cluster RightSize calculation or, be provided with the number of hosts can be suspended. They calculate on a daily basis...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Verify via API when the Nightly Plans Are Completed

Some customers run overnight processes to evaluate capacity and availability data from Turbo to be integrated into other internal systems. These programs need to run only after our Nightly Plans process has finished up. They have requested a simpl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Would like Instana to support the writing of the agent logs to the syslog system - See support request 30210

We have both aix and linux agents. We had both agents successfully writing to our syslog for quite some time (> 9 months). Recently (perhaps 6 weeks ago), after we upgraded our agents, the aix agent no longer writes to the syslog. The linux age...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

Single pane to view all restarted containers and pods for a deployment

At present there is no single view to see the graphs related to contianers those are created after restart of pods in a deployment. As these all containers belong to same deployment they should show restart-event and continuous graph related to co...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Not under consideration

SHA-256 and above, AES-256 and above supports are required in MTTRAPD probe

SNMP V3 is configured to accept traps from vRealize Operations Manager 8.2. vRealize Operations Manager 8.2 supports Authentication algorithms SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and Privacy algorithms AES192, AES256. SHA-256 and above, AES-256 and...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

XML names monitoring in IBM DataPower using APM

We would like to use the DataPower agent from IBM Application Performance Management to monitor the "XML names" usage as described in here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/what-are-xmlnames-and-why-am-i-running-out-space-them-my-ibm-websphere-da...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration