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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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Insight Packs latest Supported versions Enhancement -Microsoft DNS

Can you please provide the information on latest versions supported by Microsoft DNS Insight pack and let us know by what time it can be available . As the reference links provide information on older versions and its not providing information on ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Support for SHA256 and SHA512 authentication protocols (Impact 7.1 SNMP DSA - snmpwalk)

The Customer needs support for SHA256 and SHA512 authentication protocols when using SNMPv3 via SNMP DSA and Impact policies while monitoring Checkpoint devices. In the latest R81 software for Checkpoint, sha1 and md5 protocols are no longer avail...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Oracle Service Names

Discovery Oracle database service names. Discovery the various service names for each database discovered. This information is used by many applications in the connection strings and can be used to build out dependencies and discover configuration...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Planned for future release

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Message Bus gateway MQTT transport username/password

The MQTT transport for Message Bus gateway only allows for anonymous connections to an MQTT server. If connection is to a RabbitMQ server, an anonymous connection is usually only allowed from a localhost for security reasons. The transport module ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

CST. Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1 etc

Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1, support for spaces in directory/sensor names, and correction of the invocation of the ASDMAINSCRIPT in the archive file). To provide a work-around to officially support async...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

CLI should ensure useropts files are created with permission that prevent access by other users

A user's .TWS directory and useropts file are currently created by composer or conman based on a user's current umask setting. Many users are either not familiar with umask, are unaware of the relationship between umask setting the creation of .TW...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output message when issue "chkconfig on" command

"Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output error messages when issuing "chkconfig on" command. " When we issue "chkconfig on" command at TSA environment, we receive some messages from insserv shown as foll...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Request for a written description of detailed information in the TSA manuals

"Request for a written description of detailed information about relationship between OpState of resources and OpState of resource group, in Administrator's and User's Guide" This request comes from the PMR - 79859,6XM,760 (E54-z-79859)TSA V3.2.1 ...
over 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration