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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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save filter button in analytics page

In analytics page you can do filter on applications and all other metrics ad stuff but you cant create saved filter for common search criteria or very complex queries.you should create a save button as in infrastructure page.
24 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
24 days ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
24 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Netcool Operations Insight on OCP comes with an OpenLDAP repo which does not allow secure LDAP communication which it should

Netcool Operations Insgight on OCP comes with an OpenLDAP repo which does not allow secure LDAP communication which it should. The audit fails at my client Bundeswehr as only unsecre LDAP can be enabled and due to CASE TS017137811 is not supported...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Export of custom dashboards in global export

Hello,Can you add the export of custom dashboards and datasources in the global export in the DWC.
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Under review

Job Management Plugin needs to be able to rerun jobs in different Streams

For a very simple process that needs to rerun a job in the same stream this works fine. But the use of this would more likely be handled by a simple job rerun setting or maybe a recovery job. To make this far more useful the plugin should also be ...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.I know that the product is supported by it's version and platform may not impact it. However, I'd like to ensur...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Allow for wildcards on time arguments in conman commands (or more commands)

Our company uses conman commands regularly in our automation to perform many tasks that we would otherwise do manually. As often as possible, we use variables or wild cards so that hard-coding isn't needed. In some cases, that is now allowed. One ...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration