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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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Durable Topic Subscription in JMS Probe

For high availability, we need to have a durable subscription for the MQ topic which pushes events into the Message Bus Probe. We are using a JMS subscription to push these events. We have noticed that other probes than the Message Bus Probe suppo...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Variable handling - configurable per tab or global

Variable handling in DI is very limiting having variables that apply to all tabs in a report. Not only is it restrictive but can also be confusing with different variable types and data it applies to (especially with flow). It should be possible t...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Password encryption in configuration.yaml file

HI Team, It is one the audit highlights not to have password mentioned as plain text in configuration file. Kindly include feature or way to have encryption password in configuration.yaml without need to purchase separate license. Regards Harpreet
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Improvements to Infrastructure & Platforms charts in custom dashboard

I set the following conditions for any user. * For the group to which the user belongs, set host A in Infrastructure DFQ in Areas of Groups settings * In the widgets of Dashboard X published to this user, I selected Infrastructure & Platforms ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 6 Future consideration

Restrict the number of RestAPI calls made to TWSz

System : IBM Workload Scheduler and Dynamic Workload consoleActor : DWC users We use DWC RestAPI to interact with IWSz for monitoring and batch operations (submit, restart jobs, etc.) for Mainframe as well as Distributed jobs. Also application tea...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Setup a NOI / AIOps application self monitoring solution that can be integrate with RBA to try to solve the issue

Why is it useful? It is useful because there are not specific monitoring solution for that environment. It needs to setup many custom solutions that could be changed with the new version of tool. Who would benefit from it ? All customers that have...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TWS Operator Comments Section for each job

While performing operations on jobs like say putting a job on hold, a section to capture operator comments is required. This helps when there are multiple shifts and handover of operations to next shift. By capturing the comments it helps operatio...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Add End User's IP Address and Hostname to INSTANA's Action Logs and Access Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure and identify security incidents. This is a requirement for PCI Certification.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Automated/semi-automated remediations to address Security and Compliance violations for VMs/Servers

Empower self-healing remediation with low and zero touch for cost avoidance. As a Cloud Admin , I want to be informed about any Security & Compliance deviation in my Client´s environments so I can take the necessary actions to avoid audit issu...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration