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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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support NodeJS PrismaORM or the DB dependencies thereof

Instana currently does not auto discover DB queries made to MySQL through the PrismaORM package (https://www.prisma.io/). Presumably it's not Prisma that needs to be instrumented, but rather the DB Driver it uses (MariaDB?).
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Node 3 Delivered

Need RedHat Cluster Suite (RHCS) discovery & mapping in TADDM

Need TADDM to be able to discover and map all servers in a RedHat Linux cluster.
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Delivered

Add the ability to use external-secrets to the config for self-hosted POP

We do not want to put our Instana key in github and would like to be able to use external-secrets similar to how we do with the instana-agent.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

Remove couple of drop down options in MWM

Need to remove the "!=" and "not like" drop down options from the out of the box MWM selection.. users have mistakenly used these options to create MM so it has suppressed all the alerts coming into the system. To avoid these mistakes in the futur...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

RunBook Automation - SSH Encryption Method - Ed25519

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it is much more secure than SSH-RSA Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase security when using SSH with the product. How should it...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

MCM to provide the choice of deploying multiple version of OCP cluster on AWS

Details: Currently via MCM we cannot provision different version of Openshift cluster on AWS as the version is dependent on the openshift-installer binary and which is a static value in multicluster-hub-cluster-api-provider-ocp microservice.
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered

Maintenance Window Management View Customization

We need to have the option to enable or disable the required comparators in the GUI such as =, !=, like, not like. Based on the customer requirement, they can keep the required comparators.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Delivered

Netcool WebGUI load balance support for Oracle database

Currently WebGUI (JazzSM) only supports the usage of DB2 in the HA load balanced configuration, we are in need of this configuration to support the usage of Oracle as part of our new firm driven requirements.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

to extract from Azure the fact that a disk is an OS disk or a data disk without needing to rely on a naming standard

this will make it easier to associate different policies associated to the different disk types
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Delivered

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered