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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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retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration

Netcool Omnibus Object Server User Repository-Password enforcement policy

Our customer is using Omnibus object server as user repository. And wants to implement the following password enforcement policies.1. Password history should be enforced for last 4 passwords not to be permitted.2. Application should enforce passwo...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

Add Terraform Support for zCentric Agent and DWC

Simplify configuration and setup of Zcentric Agents and DWC on the Cloud
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Use the same Channel/Subscription model for apps running in VM-based infra too

MCM and the coming RH ACM are both container friendly solutions, which bring in a unified and simplified Channel/Subscription model to deploy and manage applications within managed Kubernetes clusters across cloud providers. But the vision of CP4M...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Planned for future release

Oracle SAM policy to support multiple databases

TSAMP is used for keeping Oracle highly available, but currently only supports one database (one database in the SAP-licensed Oracle policy).
over 7 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Validate Symphony file prior distribution

We have recently experienced several issues during the IWS new plan load. Most likely related to Job Streams into ADD status. In order to prevent such impacts for many clients we do support (+40 Global Clients) we'd like to suggest a new process w...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Discovery Console - History Panel Enhancement

Some basic enhancements within the history panel in the Discovery Console: 1: The user can currently select multiple discovery entries from the top panel. The discovery details in the bottom panel should be updated to reflect details for all selec...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 6 Not under consideration

IWS/IWA distributed engine improved variable management

The customer that is an historical IWS for z/OS client is implementing their first distributed engine environment. During this implementation they discovered that the IWS distributed engine does not provide a common variable management between the...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Variance analysis - Change column name to month + "actuals"

In the variance analysis section 1st column with actuals has only month name and it doesn't specify if it's actuals or forecast. As you can see from the attachments the title of the column is only April which doesn't specify if it's actuals or for...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Instana should support memory profiling for dotnet core applications

at present dot net core applications can show CPU profiling only. I could not have a view of memory profiles. that is why have to reply on manual profiling. Please provide this integration. One of out app is showing continuos increasing memory thanks
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration