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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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Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
2 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity 0 Submitted

The Netflow Rules Manager needs to include a pop up or other UI based notification that changes to the rules will not take effect until after the existing flows are stopped external to SevOne

The Netflow Rules Manager needs to include a pop up or other UI based notification that changes to the rules will not take effect until after the existing flows are stopped external to SevOne
2 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Netflow Flow Interface Manager should include a warning that advises the customer all previously recorded netflow data for a given flow interface will be deleted when purging the flow interface.

Currently there is no warning the data will be lost.
2 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Need tracing support for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Dear colleagues, we have a large customer who uses WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (java app): https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/blob/release-6.6.0 when they instrument it they miss half of calls. They see much more calls in Dynatrace, it affects Inst...
2 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

To show Savings under Azure Savings Compute plan in commitment portfolio

Customer would like to see the Savings they are making on their account under Commitment Portfolio. As of now, they do see details related to Utilization, Hourly commit and Remaining cost, however having the option to see the savings happening wou...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

Siebel Tracing and Monitoring with IBM Instana

We want to monitor Oracle Siebel application and have installed Instana agent on Oracle Siebel servers. We can see siebel in the list of discovered applications however, we are unable to view its API calls. only /siebel api can be seen and we are ...
2 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
3 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses For example, suppose there are 3,000 EC2 virtual machines in one AWS account. In that case, under the current Turbonomic structure, 3,000 machines (3,000 licenses) are required on an MVS ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
10 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted