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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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Warn, alert, highlight containers with Root privileges

Please highlight with a specific color deployments and containers that are running with root privileges, allow to trigger alarm on this. Probably for those who does not have open policy agent it could be a first step or to add some value for those...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Change the data return policy of application metrics

We noticed that application metrics for applications that are rarely called are not representative after 32 days. So in this case, we would like Instana to give us average data per time slot (even if it means losing time granularity, but not going...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Add "message" tag for monitoring kafka

I'm using instana for tracing requests and sometimes our http endpoints send kafka messages to topics.I added instrumentation for kafka python library we are using so that in can be traced in instana. Issue I'm facing is - I need to show message b...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Create DWC as Windows Service

Please, could you improve the procedure to create a Windows Service for DWC 9.5 / WLP ? A procedure which would allow definition of the Windows service DWC/WLP without having to define systems variables (as described in technote 6129417) based on ...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Support Correlation Information from NOKIA NSP within NSP Probe for Kafka

System: Netcool Probe/Omnibus/DashCurrently there is no correlation information delivered by the NOKIA Kafka Topic "NSP-Fault". For the future NOKIA intends to add these information into the topic to have the already available correlation informat...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Auto Recover from Hung threads and connections

Terminate any hung threads in application server(WebSphere) and close the hung DB connections without the need to restart the application process.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Add dump java object in heap memory

It would be useful to have the possibility to observ and determine which Java Object consume memory in the heap memory. Actually with the profiling we could see which process consume CPU or is waiting but there is no information about the memory. ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Way to provide feedback if probable cause is not the really not the cause, so next time, system should not mark it as probable cause

can we offer a feedback, if probable cause is not the really not the cause, so next time, system should not mark it as probable cause
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Impossible to install iSeries Agent on iASP storage

Installation on iSeries does not work if the user library has been bound to an iASP storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_storage_pool).The installation fails in the step that configures the iOS part.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improve analysis abilites in case of malfunction

TSAMP is starting and stopping configured resources, depending on relationships, votes, requests and internal states. There are several cases, when it is hard or impossible to understand the decided behaviour. At this situations we (TSA-Admins and...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration