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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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Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Add a Dependency to Run Cycle Calendar

We would like the enhancement to ADD a Dependency to a run cycle Calendar
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for 'operSt: ok' response from APIC for SevOne SDN solution

It has been found that the 'operSt' indicator from a Cisco APIC will at times respond with a string "ok", like so: "operSt": "ok", Currently, the SDN product will mark this response with a '0' as it aligns with 'unknown' "unknown": 0, "down": 1, "...
9 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 3 Is a defect

Adapt results of ITP filter to existent filters

If for example we have Department A with expenses (A1, A2, A3) and Department B with expenses (B1, B2), when you try to apply a filter on expenses, you see a list that contains A1, A2, A3, B1, B2.  It would make more sense if, having selected...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

"Limited access" users should be able to use "Analyze Infrastructure"

When you want to set the permission of Infrastructure of a group with "limited access", you cannot set "Analyze Infrastructure" permission to ON. It means that "limited access" users cannot use "Analyze Infrastructure" features today. I assume tha...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1

Ping-checks: Add option "HTTP-method"

Hello, we are using your ping checks and just want to implement them more efficiently. Therefore it would be very helpful if we would have an option for "HTTP method", e.g. GET, POST, PUT, and so on. And also the option "body" is needed then proba...
almost 3 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
almost 3 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration