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Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
26 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Create Jira ticket from Commitment Recommendations

Please allow from Commitment Recommendations to create jira tickets to be assigned to product teams for evaluation.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Enable the customization of fields for alerts coming from Instana in Watson AIOps, so that custom payloads and additional data can be fully utilized in direct integrations.

Currently, when integrating alerts from Instana into Watson AIOps, there is a critical limitation: only a set of predefined fields are transferred, and important custom information contained in Instana's custom payloads is not mapped or visible in...
25 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Ability to restrict the Rest API to specific user groups and rate-limiting

Currently, the Rest API can be used by anyone with access to the engine. We would like the ability to restrict that access to a specific user group or even source IP address or subnet. In addition, being able to rate limit Rest API calls would als...
4 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Add Disable Functionality for Custom Field Options

When managing a custom field dropdown list, it would be helpful to have the ability to disable individual field options. Over time, certain options may become outdated or irrelevant, and being able to disable them would allow for a cleaner, more s...
4 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

New ITNM Collector to collect topology from Huawei NCE R21 (EMS)

Customer is planning to deploy ITNM v4.2.0.21 to pull the topology from below Network Management System (NMS). This topology data will then be collected by IBM AIOps observer. Vendor: Huawei Name: NCE R21 Technology: DWDM Protocol: REST API New co...
4 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

shielded .qcow2 image file for Data Insight complient with GCP provisioning requirements.

Customers are having deploying Data Insight in GCP environment. It seems a shielded .qcow2 image file for Data Insight is needed. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/about-shielded-vm?hl=en
5 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Need a simple version of Copy command in Alert Viewer to only copy to clipboard what is shown in the view

Copy command embedded in the Raw tab of the Information section in Alert Viewer copies the raw json dump of the alert to clipboard. This involves a lot of data that is irrelevant to the user forcing them to remove the unnecessary information befor...
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release