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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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IWS : -noremove option of JnextPlan should not remove cancelled job streams

The goal of the -noremove option is to keep the plan "as is" (Successful job streams are not removed). However, cancelled job streams are removed during the replan operation.
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Can we group all our custom dashboards in to folders

It would be great if we have option to group all our custom dashboards in to different folders
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

OOTB support for Multi-Objectserver Cloud Native Event Analytics.

Most Telco customers have more than a single Objectserver processing their Network faults. The current limitation is posing to be big bottleneck for performing cross Objectserver Temporal event analytics. The request is basically to implement an O...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Event Analytics : Sort/Filter/Search

Enhancement 4 – Functionality IBM to create: Sort, Filter and Search on Policies including the Custom Fields
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow "patch" method to HTTP actions

When I try to create an HTTP action in Instana Automation feature, I can see the most common HTTP actions such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but some APIs require the PATCH method, which represents a partial update https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
12 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

MQ Series Monitoring Agent: Include the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers) support in ITCAM for Messaging agents.

The Monitoring team has been received a demand from MQ team about their new environment in the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers). Usually the new environment is composed of 3 servers, with one service active and the others in stand-by. But, ...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4

IBM JVM Profiler Support

Currently IBM JVM Profiler is not supported https://www.instana.com/supported-technologies/java-profiling/ and it makes application servers hosted on AIX websphere impossible to profile and this is needed feature to optimize java applications
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 5

Netcool Impact - Policy activator to have a scheduled time window, such that policy always runs at a scheduled time.

example: case: 1 I want to activate my policy using policy activator at 8PM IST every day , but if any issues noi-nciserver-0 pod get restarted at 6PM IST and it got up at 6:05PM IST, then policy activator will activate my policy at 6:05PM IST rig...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Jobstream description in DWC

Hi It will nice to add description of Jobstream into the planning of DWC for IWS distributed. This is a funtion we have in IWS for z/OS
almost 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release