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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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TopN reports CSV extract has unit in bytes

In today's world, nobody subsribes to services in bits and bytes. The unit should be either in Kbytes or MBytes so that the Customers and Service Managers can do their calculation easily
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Not under consideration

Kong Monitoring - Have a unified console page just like Kubernetes

For Kong monitoring, we currently have agents being monitored and this poses a great deal of work to figure out which agent among 100's of agents some clusters may have to know the metrics. Instead, Kong monitoring should be based on cluster level...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML emails

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML email format in the Body. Current email probe is capable of reading only plain text. Many users are looking for converting html email into an alert. It requires lot of efforts to write rules for reading HTML em...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Backup resource advisor URL

We have automated the agent install process in our environment completely, but when ever we perform the Disaster Recovery Test and switch to Backup master, all the new agent installs needs o updated manually (JobManager.ini) with the Backup master...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Application Transaction Tracing for DataPower and MQ Appliances

This is idea is beneficial for all customers who employ DataPower and/or MQ appliances as part of their application infrastructure because it would enable them to gain a true 'end-to-end' view of their application flows. By enabling transactions t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Avoid error popup about loggingdll.dll in Fixpack Support Installation

Trying to install some Fixpack Support Installation (i.e. 5.5.0-TIV-KD5-FP0007) on Windows 2016 server, we receive an error popup with the message: Couldn't load LoggingDLL.dll file, Installation aborted. and a subsequent popup with the message: E...
9 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Is a defect

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
9 months ago in Instana / Python 1 Planned for future release

Group Metrics Widget Uplift

Following are the list of capabilities that we are expecting from the Group Metrics to accommodate in future : 1. Total Stats to be introduced along with Avg, Min, Max etc. 2. Chart Options to include - Table, Line Chart, Bar Chart, Gauge / Speedo...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

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

Impact nci_import/nci_export: improve handling of command line format errors

nci_import and nci_export do not handle command line parameter mistakes properly. And the --help function is misleading regarding the sequence of parameters: The position of "OPTIONS" is not mentioned in the "Synopsis" *and* is listed after the ar...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release