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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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Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Support of nvp_get function in restriction filters of OMNIbusEventReader

We need a policy to be executed by an OMNIbusEventReader when an nvp_attribute has a specific value. At the moment, nvp_get does not work if used in the restriction filter of an OMNIbusEventReader. The policy to be triggered is not being executed ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Need to see NUMA Scoring from HMC per Lpar in Instana

Hi for HANA on Power it is essentiall to see the NUMA Scoring for each VM from HMC in Instana
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Implement multi-factor mechanisms (2FA+) for any authentication

Netcool Products, including Omnibus WebGui as well any IBM tool must adhere and comply to the Security and policy standards and ITSS advises and requests that 2FA is enable for all products
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

IBM APM 8.1.4 supports RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4?

Please let us know what will be the ETA for IBM APM 8.1.4 supporting RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Instana - Add Group Descriptions

Today in IBM APM, we can add descriptions to user groups to give more information about what the user group is for. There is no way to do that in Instana today. Can it be added?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Export as image and Export option missing in Action drop down of Topology Lite Widget

Export as image and Export option missing in Action drop down of Topology Lite Widget But in Topology Lite widget documentation in Knowledge Center , it is available . https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEKCU_1.1.3.0/com.ibm.psc.doc/tip_...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 7 Not under consideration

Improve adding groups to "Volumes" and "Database" policies

Currently, when changing the scope of a policy, the new scope overrides the old scope once saved. This only occurs for database policies and volume policies, not virtual machine policies. For example, if i have a policy and the scope is for group ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Jobstream should go in ABEND status if one job in the stream is in error

A jobstream should go in ABEND status if one job in the stream is in error even if other jobs in the stream are in EXEC status.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Custom MessageKey value for XMLGateway and Kafka

nco_g_xml_11 allow using only @ServerSerial or @ServerName as value for ate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property. We need to use at leas the combination of the both fields (for example: @ServerName+to_char(@ServerSerial)) or any other field from Objects...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration