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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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Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Actionalble Seasonality - Alert when an expected seasonal occurrence of an event does not happen

if an event is seasonal, but does not occur at the expected seasonal time, do some action (generate event, open ticket, etc.)
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Time interval between 1st & last Event in Related Event Group

On NOI-onprem, there is no way to specify or update or add the time interval between 1st and the last event within a Related Event Group through the UI. Because in real world, the events within a Related Event Group may or may not always appear in...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Job Schedule - To Enhance the Run cycle Preview

Hi Team, This request is to enhance the feature of job preview option inside the job stream. When we see the job view (tool tip )from inside the job stream it will display the job name alone according to the cursor movement.instead we are looking ...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Check the supplied hostname format before starting the install process.

When standing up a new Turbo VM from the OVA there is an option to run the ./t8c.sh script and pass a -h modifier followed by the desired host name of the VM - so it is not named the default node1. If a hostname is supplied with an improper format...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Adding support EntityFramework Core 6

Provide the same functionality to EntityFramework Core 6 as it exists for: Entity Framework .NET >= 2, >= 3.
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Functionality already exists

DWC - Create datasource for a selected flow based on endpoint(s)

We would like to be able in DWC to create a datasource extracting entire flow which one or more given job(s) is/are depending on (no matter job status).
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

TWS job and job stream char limit increase

pmr 744070,082,00 This PMR addresses the question about the jobstream character limit. I found that a request has been made to change the character limit for both jobstream and job names from 16 and 40 to 40 and 64 respectively. I tested the jobst...
over 13 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

Expose PHP FPM connectionResets metric

Currently it is not possible to add a custom event based on the connectionResets FPM metric. This would be important to us as the limits set by the default "Too many connections reset" FPM event are too low and we would like to customize it.
about 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

agent upgrade post validation is needed

a post validation step needs to be added to the agent upgrade VB script to ensure we are able to resume batch after a successful upgrade.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration