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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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Support for selects/inserts/updates/deletes/others queries metrics on Postgres database

I have enabled the PostgreSQL monitoring as describe in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-postgresql I am able to see common metrics. It is mandatory to have Query based monitoring for postgres...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add a new time option for configuring an Event

The only current time option is the "time window". It would be much appreciated if there is another time option to specify the time for which an event will only trigger if the conditions are met continually during that time. For instance, if we se...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Default MSL *LINUX_SYSTEMS should segregate the rhel 7 & 8 versions.

There are certain process which are different in rhel7 & rhel8 so while creating situaiton for these process monitoring it is difficult to separate the OS versions. and it will be huge effort in larger environment to manually creating separate...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data

Search function in TADDM Data management portal returns subset of data. Search function does not find all CI's, because the search function searches only for components that belong to any of the following subclasses: - ComputerSystem- AppServer- S...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Manage agent keys inside Instana UI

Follow on from this ticket where it was necessary to rotate the Agent Keys this feature request is for the capability to manage Agent Keys from the Instana UI in order to limit the visibility and usage of keys to specific teams or parts ...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Add CARRYFORWARD OPTION to conman SJ

We would like the same CARRYFORWARD option we have, with the Jobstream command . conman SS eg.conman "ss @#@+carried forward" BUT on the job command conman SJ
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Quick Filters - To be permanent on the Main or Parent Filter

Set Quick Filters as permanent than temporary
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

WebGUI 8.1 : Column add comments directly to that field without right click tool

Users requested to have “new” field (similar to Journal), so that it is possible to add comments directly to that field, without opening new window (right click tool). According to requirement it should work like in excel sheet. Additionally, user...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

No Operation

The No Operation field does not show up on the Plan List nor can it be seen on the Data Base in View Mode.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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