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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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Release Notes / Changelog for API

I never find API related release notes/change logs anywhere. Please publish them with every new release, so that we can understand what has changed and how when updating our services.
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Planned for future release

Mark "downstream" services accordingly and filter them in the dashboard

Once you select "Automatically include Downstream Services in Applications" it would be interesting to: (1) See the "downstream services" marked as such in the "services" list and dependancy map etc. (2) Have an ability to turn on/off the downstr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Ability for Profiling IBM J9 runtime

Please add the ability for Profiling IBM J9 runtime
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation

We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Please adapt ITNCM TCR reports to handle larger ITNCM environments (greater than 1000 realms).

Please adapt ITNCM TCR reports to handle larger ITNCM environments (greater than 1000 realms). Customer experienced the following error when trying to run a report with the top realm selected (resulting in > 1000 realms): *******Error code: UDA...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Non interactive account to install IWS

We need to be able to install the IWS MDM with a NON interactive Linux IPA service account. KPMG service accounts do not allow login nor can you 'su - ' to them. At thif tim version 9.5 and 10 require the TWS user account to have login capable int...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

CyberArk CCP integration (OS User method - kerberos) with IWA

We are expecting you to develop a solution to have CyberArk integration with TWS application via . For now, CyberArk integration with IWA (TWS) is supported with CP and CCP method. In our environment, it is not possible to implement CCP using clie...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

TPC Sensor Enchancement

Currently TPC sensors on TADDM 7.3 FP4 after successful Tivoli Productivity Center / Spectrum Control discovery, does not provide following direct links between objects: StorageSubsystem->Pools->Volumes->Computer System and vice versa. It...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Enable SSL configuration for Oracle database connections

We had planned to deploy IWS 9.5FP2 (MDM and DWC) into Amazon cloud however our environment is mandated to use SSL connectivity to RDS instances. Currently only DB2 supports SSL which is not an option for us as Oracle RDS must be used in our AWS e...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Additional Parameter Option for Filemonitor

We would like an additional parameter added to the filemonitor process to allow the ability to relocate a file that has been preciously found and recorded into the filemonitor database.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration