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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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RESTFUL plugin to support OAuth2.0 with Client Credentials & expiring token

As discussed with L3 part of CASE: TS013544578.The 10.2 restful API provided with Oauth 2.0 only works for non-expiring refresh token. But part of our security requirement the refresh token need to be expiring (max 1 hour) using the client credent...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Implementation of log suppression function with "CRI-O"

We would like to deal with this problem as soon as possible. Since I want to suppress the output of Instana Log, I was previously taught how to support it. However, the adapted method is log suppression for "containerd" and cannot be applied to lo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Not under consideration

Certify Multi Factor Authentication IBM DASH integration with Okta

Default Authentication for IBM DASH using Websphere is not sufficient to protect unauthorized users into system. Enterprises use Okta's web-based, single sign-on (SSO) application to provide a single centralised interface to access third-party p...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Differentiate between Agent and JVM offline events.

It is not possible to differentiate between a JVM going offline and if there is a communication drop with the Instana agent. This has been discussed with IBM support TS013050872. Request for service improvement to be able to tell the difference so...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Vmware Agent ITM version 07.30.03.00 up limit table KVM_TOPOLGY

TS008498905 2022-03-30 10:49:26 40 INFO: Inventory.processUpdate: Total count of monitored objects in the environment(10.113.52.212) is 3501. Data collection of Topology attribute group is disabled as it is supported to collect data for the maximu...
almost 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

FR - Python sensor support for Tornado 6

At this moment instana python sensor it's only support Tornado bellow version 6.0.0 but we need to update and app that depends on Tornado 6.1 and we need the Instana monitoritation. It's possible add support for Tornado >= 6.0.0 to Instana Pyth...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 3

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Monitor Workload Filtering

Within Workload Scheduler include an extended filtering mechanism on the Monitor Workload screen. Currently it only works as an include. An extended option would enable filtering for NOT containing or using AND/OR to display more complicated sched...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Save TBM Studio table layout (show/hide)

I would like to be able to save a layout of the tables in TBM Studio. Many of my tables have more than 50 columns. Everytime I need to review the data I have to set the show/hide columns. It would be very helpful and save a lot of time if I could ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration