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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

Mutiple selection of extractions/definition/rules/policies in order to deactivate/delete them should be possible

Deleting multiple extraction/definitions/rules/policies requires enormous amount of clicks.We should have at least a way to select multiple extraction/definition/rules/policies to disable in the first place and after that to delete. Bare in mind t...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Make FTAs secure - fix conman security gaps

FTAs include conman which can submit ad-hoc commands to other workstations with the sbd command under the scope allowed by the local security file. A compromised FTA may modify its own security file at will and submit any commands to other worksta...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add Tabs and filter / group by options in custom dashboards

We 'd like to have Tab button and Collapse button to switch grouping and to expand more widgets in a custom Dashboard like applications (call count Http Status Code)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration