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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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Probe support for Release 4.5 of TMF814

The current probe does not support Release 4.5 of TMF814
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Capability to add and populate custom field on device via UI as supposed to using backend stitcher

Looking for capability to add and populate custom field or attribute to device via UI. Currently we use backend stitcher and customization to add new custom field or attribute.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Add PKCS12 certificate support to Message Bus probe

The Netcool MessageBus probe for Ciena requires an x509 certificate to connect to Ciena EMS. Using IBM Java keytool to create the certificate with the x509 option results in a message to then convert the resulting certificate to PKCS12 - as x509 i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

ktor library support

Everyone using Kotlin platform.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Not under consideration

Run Cycle - create "ByDay" yearly run cycle

We would like IWS have the ability to create yearly run cycles "BYDAY". An example is to run the 2nd Sunday of January every year. Similar to Monthly run cycle "FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2SU" This would remove calendar updates from our applica...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

We are interested in NFM-P probe for NSP 20.11

we need nco_p_nokia_nfmp to be certified against NSP 20.11.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Hide authorization token in alert channel header value

Please provide an option to hide the value field when there is a token inside for security reasons. You will find this in the alert channel header area. Details please find in the attached screenshot.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Circular Dependency View

Currently TWS workload designer checks for circular dependencies within a job stream. However, it cannot detect circular dependencies that involve external jobs. Requirement is for capability to detect circular dependencies in external dependencie...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration