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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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Get notification of updates & patches for on-premise installations

A customer running an on-premise installation will never know if there are patches or updates available for their Instana version. What happens if a CVE patch is published? Will Instana notify the customer that they have a vulnerable version and t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Performance alarm storage in TNCP database

Currently performance alarms are triggered from threshold configuration in TNCP. However the data of what has been raised, when, etc are not stored. We can only get current snapshot of alarms, not history. Customer has a requirement for a report, ...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Add Weblogic Name in filter/group fields of custom dashboards

Today the only attribute related to Weblogic Servers (WLS) is the port. It's clearly not enough. Please include server name in the Dynamics Focus search, the filter and group fields in custom dashboards widgets.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

#cpfield Improving the performance of API connections between Turbonomic and Azure Plan API.

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic supports Azure Plan API, but the customer says the response is too late. The customer is consi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Not under consideration

Instrument Sangria GraphQL library

We use the sangria library to expose a graphql server written in Scala, running on the JVM. We would like to be able to use Instana to see the details of the graphql call, similar to how Instana can instrument other graphql libraries.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Update batch reports CLI to not require full access to the database

We began piloting the command line reporting function for TWS and, through the support ticket noted, found out that in order for CLI reports to work with an Oracle database, the CLI must be granted access to the TWS object owner account. This is i...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Update Policies UX for better usability

Enhancement 1 – Policies “Suggested” CNEA has 60K+ suggested options for enhanced Netcool alarming The 60K+ options do not take into account existing development contained within Netcool (Scope ID, XnY, Suppression etc.). Therefore, to the untrain...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

MFA integration with TADDM

Hi Team, We would like MFA integration with TADDM Application and we are using LDAP configuration
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Devices imported from ITNM shouldn't need to autodiscover

When devices are imported via the NMEntityMapper from ITNM the information needed for import is already provided by the API. In many cases the information gathered via snmp by ITNM is either more accurate or the autodiscover driver doesn't gather ...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

TDWC Workload Designer to integrate validfrom dates on job streams

Integrate job stream valid-from dates into Workload Designer such that all versions of a job stream are all opened and worked with together as one object in the UI. In the Working List the Job Stream would be a tree of valid-from versions. Functio...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration