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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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Keep Jobstream when conman cancel Js

When you cancel JS;pend the Jobstream keeps into the planning but when you cancel without pend the jobstream disappear then you cannot use Rerunsucc function
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Time slicer

In some situations it is more practical to have a time slicer. The purpose here is to fix the relative time (i.e. a week) but move the slicer over a timeframe to look at data from a week with various start dates.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Offline events for critical infra components

The current Instana alerting isn't picking up when a critical infra component is off the map. I.e. a system that was previously receiving a large amount of calls suddenly is gone (i.e. a database back-end). REWE suggest that Instana should "know" ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

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?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Application Perspective: Sorting by infrastructure

Currently it is not possible to sort the table in infrastructure-tab of services and APs by the first column
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Allow event handler to specify Variable Table to start job/stream

An event handler action which starts a job and/or stream should be able to specify a variable table to be used. In addition, it should be possible to run an executable with parameters to determine the variable table name. An absolute name could be...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

the job object to the description on the job object in a given job stream

When defining a job object, we type a description in Workload Designer. See attached RFE01.PNG When using the job object in a job stream, the description field on the job is blank again. Of cource we can just type the descprition again, identical ...
about 12 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Ability to assign/set in-progress/close multiple CEM incidents in one go

To have the ability in CEM to select multiple incidents and to assign them all to a team and/or an individual all in one go. And then to also obviously have the same functionality for all other actions on a CEM incident like setting "In-progress",...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

API: Support EntityId->Host parameter in query to get all Snapshots of a single Host

Introduction: In an Enterprise Context, Instana contains valueable informations about running software on single machines or clusters, when an Agent is installed. With the current API it is hard to replicate UI functionalities, like showing all pr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for local administrative login while utilizing SSO/MFA

When using MFA/SSO with Turbonomic it will only allow for login via that MFA/SSO provider. If something changes or the login no longer functions, it is then impossible to access the Turbonomic UI. I believe it would be a good idea to leave some so...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Not under consideration