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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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Impersonation support for MCM APIs

I'd like to manage and provision software to a managed cluster through our MCM hub as the user requesting the software to prevent security issues arising from elevated privilege. For example, charts or operators that are configured to install to n...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality for TADDM to discover Windows 2016 Nano Server Installation

Add functionality for TADDM to discover Windows 2016 Nano Server Installation to collect CI attributes and dependency data.
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Event Reader Service should warn users on save if a field used in the Event Reader Filter is not in the selected fields

The request is for adding a warning option to Omnibus EventReader service when users are triying to make changes that will affect restriction filter. The solution should be implemented on Impact 7.1 and it was discussed with Impact L2 engineers wh...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Capture number of batched statements in JDBC tracing

The Java JDBC instrumentation picks up calls to org.postgresql.jdbc.PgPreparedStatement#executeBatch. It would be great if Instana's tracing would also pick up (as in attach to the span and present in the UI), the number of batched SQL statements ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

Export custom applicaiton and alert setting

Doe to custom application view will similar with other application. So, export application setting will help to create a new applicaiton view. The customer alert is also the same idea with applicaiton, some alert will similar with other alert sett...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

SSL encryption for psagent workstations

In the near future, Peoplesoft will discontinue support for LLE tuxedo connections, and we'll need to migrate to SSL tuxedo connections (see attached) Presently, in workload scheduler, an extended psagent workstation cannot talk to a peoplesoft t...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add Y-axis to time series in Custom dashboard

we have created a time series widget in custom dashboard but it does not have Y-Axis to indicate the graph values and its becoming difficult to understand and present these values
over 2 years ago in Instana 3 Not under consideration

Jython API executeCommandWithTimeout improvements

A) The executeCommandWithTimeout does not handle standard error. We had to redirect stderr to stdout. B) The executeCommandWithTimeout (may) block if standard input is not redirected from a file. (The command we are executing does not as far as I ...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

MCM Addition of ISM agent to monitor DNS, SNMP and Apache through HTTP

In our environment, we are using APM v8 and monitoring DNS, SNMP and Apache (via HTTP) using ISM agent, we will be upgrading to MCM soon and will be monitoring the same processes.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

IIB ACE abend, dumps and syslog monitoring through Instana

We would like to monitor IIB ACE system logs, abend and dumps files through Instana remotely. Could you please provide this feature.
over 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Not under consideration