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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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agent upgrade post validation is needed

a post validation step needs to be added to the agent upgrade VB script to ensure we are able to resume batch after a successful upgrade.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improve performance login on IWS for z/OS

In order to allow to understand in detail the load induced by PIF jobs on the TWS consumption, we wish to be able to have an option to activate a detailed log of the CPU cost of each PIF. In addition, in order to quantify the quality of TSO users'...
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Expose PHP FPM connectionResets metric

Currently it is not possible to add a custom event based on the connectionResets FPM metric. This would be important to us as the limits set by the default "Too many connections reset" FPM event are too low and we would like to customize it.
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

Add (java) context to logs

We're currently writing java logs with logback/slf4j. Using the logstash ArgumentsJsonProvider in our logback.xml this allows us to extend the log message with context information like stack_traces, logger_name, log level but also custom informati...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

In the Alleviate Pressure Plan the for the cold clusters the sorting order should be reversed to put green clusters at the top.

When utilizing the Alleviate Pressure Plan first a hot cluster is selected which is either a red, yellow, or orange cluster - which are sorted to the top for easy selection. On the next selection to select a cold cluster the sort order is the same...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

At Predefined Reports JS should be analyzed.

Regarding Queries at "Predifined Reports" corresponds only at Jobs. It would be good, when it will be possible to correspont to Job Streams
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support `docker run` arguments to enable customers/partners to use IEAM

IEAM (and open-horizon) should support a wider range ofdocker runarguments? I frequently encounter IBMers, partners, and customers who use Docker currently but they use arguments like the following that we don't currently support inhttps://github....
over 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 1 Future consideration

REST GET nsm/work

Requesting new NSM GET URI for work. Originally requested in RFE 88570.nsm /work/{id}nsm /work/{id}/tasknsm /work/{id}/task/{task-id}nsm /work/created/after/{date}nsm /work/created/before/{date}nsm /work/requesttype/{requesttype}nsm /work/state/{s...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Enabling Java Profiling for Applications running on Kubernetes

Currently, we only have Instana AutoProfile to support for Java applications which is running on EC2 instacnes. However we want similar feature for an application which is running on Kubernetes hosts as a conatiner application.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Functionality already exists