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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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Provide sample gitops process for Instana synthetics

Instana Synthetics is nodejs code so teams/users should keep it in a github repo for version control, security, compliance, tracking issues for changes etc The gap is automating deploying that code into an Instana account. By providing a sample gi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Use Local Resources Globally

A resource defined on a Dynamic Agent can not be used as a dependency on a job on another Dynamic Agent in the same Job Stream.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Able to add Runcycle to job

We have requirement where some job instead job stream should run only on Workdays and currently we split them into 2 job streams1) To run on every day at certain time2) To run on workdays at certain time If we get option to setup runcycle at job l...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

SHA-256 and above, AES-256 and above supports are required in MTTRAPD probe

SNMP V3 is configured to accept traps from vRealize Operations Manager 8.2. vRealize Operations Manager 8.2 supports Authentication algorithms SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and Privacy algorithms AES192, AES256. SHA-256 and above, AES-256 and...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

Auto Upgrade JVM with Instana

Please update Java(Azul or Eclips) when updating instana via the agent update. As vulnerabilities appear instana should update the Java it uses and allow for the update to be seamless
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

New function in Impact for dealing with special characters

As suggested in case, we would like to suggest creating new function for handling special characters. In rules file for probe exists similar function called printable(). In situation when event need to be updated through Impact policy and event co...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

To alert on CVEs, introduce a new event type in Instana for "Vulnerabilities Detected"

Instana should provide capabilites to create an event based on a vulnerability detected for the particular host/technology, so that the customer's support teams are alerted for the detected vulnerabilities. The event could be either a System Event...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities similar to the legacy HTTP Transport. # retryLimit - The number of time for http client to retry connection if previously failed. # retryLimit = 2 # # retryWait - The amount of time...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists