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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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Probe to connect to mailbox using Graph API

We have a requirement to monitor the mailbox and generate the alert. As per the current Probe functionality it only supports Microsoft EWS API to connect to mailbox. Barclays does not support EWS any more, it only supports Graph API. Also EWS is g...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Dedicated Sensor for Tomcat

Currently the only way to discover Tomcat is to use Custom Server templates. Unfortunately, information that can be collected by this method are limited. Because of that a Tomcat dedicated sensor is required.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Implement multi-factor mechanisms (2FA+) for any authentication

Netcool Products, including Omnibus WebGui as well any IBM tool must adhere and comply to the Security and policy standards and ITSS advises and requests that 2FA is enable for all products
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Formula Variable Viewer

As a Apptio Developer in my organization, we utilize many different table columns to calculate cost for reporting.  It would be nice to have a feature to view values and step through our formulas for verification.  Like viewing a program...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Improvement of the Deployment of CA signed certificate for cp4mcm product

Openshit Version : 4.2 Cloudpak-MCM version : 1.2.0 Enterprise Hosting Cloud : AWS Background: During CP4MCM installation , installer expects the certificate (BYOC) to be located inside cfc-component directory which works perfectly fine. Feature e...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Planned for future release

Logging API and Grafana as log aggregator

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Grafana Loki as a log aggregator solution, their business is linked to it, their SREs use capabilities of searching filtering logging of that component. At the moment they consider using Instana as an applica...
9 months ago in Instana / Logging 3 Not under consideration

way to have TWSINST not start the Agent after it finishes

we like to control where the Agent runs on the AS400 iseries platform
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

API token for configuration only

Currently - when creating an API token, this token allows full access to monitoring data, including traces and potentially user data. Considering that API tokens are widely used in automation use cases and CI/CD pipelines it should be possible, if...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Support for Public Cloud(AWS, Azure, GCP) via Private Link connection.

Turbonomic connects to publicly exposed API endpoints of each cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) to obtain information on each cloud and optimize IT resources.Major Japanese users who operate mission-critical systems in the cloud often connect secur...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Data Retention after Out of Memory error.

IBM Support Ticket TS014348006 describes a scenario where data in Instana is removed after a JVM on a host suffers an Out of Memory error. We can understand why data would not be available from the time of the error and until service is restored, ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration