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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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ITNCM performance improvement

change required in ITNCM to deal with the disrupted DB connections, stuck threads, slow performance in GUI
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Planned for future release

Supported migration path to new OVA deployment

Allow configuration data and historical data to be migrated from one XL deployment to a new XL OVA deployment. This would benefit all users who wish to deploy a newer version of the OVA for security or other reasons and remove the need for a lot o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic memory consumption

In addition to static memory metrics (free, used, swap size, or percentage), there should be dynamic memory usage sensors (metrics such as memory pages/sec, memory paged/unpaged bytes, etc.). These kind of metrics can be used to predict the problem.
over 1 year ago in Instana 2 Future consideration

One problem, one entry on Issue page via Agent API

If I want to indicate to Instana there is somewhere a problem then there is a possibility to make a custom issue via Agent API (http://localhost:42699/com.instana.plugin.generic.event). We use this facility. There is a custom http(s) protocol moni...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / API-C 1 Functionality already exists

We need a force option added to wappman

We are thinking about working with wappman to move our workload to the higher environments. After some testing and figuring out how we can incorporate it into our current way of working, we notice we are missing a "force" option to bypass the warn...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Functionality to be able to reorder rows within planning

Functionality to be able to move rows to reorder. Similar to the drop and drag functionality of the columns.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Services

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Ansible Tower backed Services. (ServiceAnsibleTower). In previous versions, the output of the Ansible Tower Job would display in in Services -> My Services -> <service name>. This no longer the ca...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Intgration qradar

In monitoring you need a holistic view, like cloud, multicloud, etc. also you need a main dashboard where everything comes together. security and performance are related to each other. So it will be great if qradar can be integrated in the Instana...
over 3 years ago in Instana 2 Not under consideration

Oracle Service Names

Discovery Oracle database service names. Discovery the various service names for each database discovered. This information is used by many applications in the connection strings and can be used to build out dependencies and discover configuration...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Planned for future release

Miss page_sets parameters in Instana thresholds

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors MQ pages (percentiles and total) with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situa...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration