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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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sshd and security ciphers that are no longer recommended by the industry

Within SSHD.conf there are older unsupported security ciphers that the industry has recommended to be mitigated. (This was found during a network security scan) Below is an export from SSHD.conf in its original file. # Limit the Ciphers and MACs t...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Openshift Service Mesh support

Instana agent on Openshift currently does not support Service Mesh bypass and monitoring .
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Cross-domain RCA is needed

One of three biggest telecom operator in Russia is in need of cross-domain RCA for their IBM Network Management IP system. Due to known limitation for number of elements in the ITNM domain, telecom operators have no other option, but to split netw...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

ITNCM worker failed to reconnect to DB

We would like a new timeout on the worker database connection so that the worker reconnects to the DB if the connection drops.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add possibility to define hidden/password fields for Runbooks

In NOI the Runbook component allows to define parameters in order to customize Runbooks and Automations. It is necessary for some of these parameters to represent passwords, so the confidential information is not disclosed accidentally. Currently ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Making it easy to identify SqlInjection

For HTTP calls performed by GET, when a SqlInjection or other types of intrussions, one of the parameters in the query string contains the atack command (SQL or OS). In the application perspective, it is possible to filter by the partial content ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Java Gateway for JDBC 2 requires to respond with nco_ping

IBM Netcool/OMNIbus Java Gateway for JDBC 2 currently does not listen on the port where omni.dat defines. This is not like other traditional gateway. so that the gateway is not nco_ping-able. Sometimes, this feature is required for a cold standby ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

OMNIbus EventViewer grouping size and user preference retention

On WebGUI Event Viewer when events are grouped, the grouping box takes up about 20% of the screen and whilst it can be shrunk down, this is not remembered for each GUI user or capable of being set via a setting in preferences.ie. an option to reme...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to analyze deployed version if different technologies

As Instana is capturing the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis). We did try to analyze the deploye...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Inport capability should not overwrite prior months

Im port capability within forecast overwrites prior months and not just future periods. For example, an April Forecast should only allow for modification April-Dec and not have an impact Jan-Mar. Currently, it impacts Jan-Mar and customer believes...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release