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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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Netcool WebGUI - Scope Based Event Grouping Page/Portal

On Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI - Scope based event grouping portal, one cannot re-arrange SBEG policy based on Name, Last modified or Enabled/Disbaled etc. This makes it difficult to manage the SBEG policies created.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Not under consideration

IBM APM Citrix Agent to support https connectivity for the citrix xenapp/Xen Desktop

Citrix XenApp/Xen Desktop is configured with https protocol. Currently we are facing a connectivity issue as IBM APM Citrix agent does not support https connectivity to the citrix application. So we request to provide a new version of IBM APM Citr...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Add an option to solve from the "Stuck Online" state, when you don't WANT to STOP the resource

In a DB2 HADR cluster been managed by TSA (SAMP) policy, somehow the hadr database resource was reporting "Stuck Online" state. Everyghing was fine from DB2 and HADR perspective, Instace was UP, HADR was running normally, both primary and Standby ...
about 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

send Instana events to Pagerduty queue (New alert channel type for Pagerduty)

Currently the integration with pagerduty is done via Pagerduty services (You need to create one integration key per service). But there is a different way to send events to Pagerduty which is to send it to a Queue. Reasons for this requests: possi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable.
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Add basic monitoring capabilities for IEAM services on edge devices

In case of problems with the applications/services on the edge devices (deadlocks or malfunctions), IEAM is not able to detect the issue or restart the service if the docker container is up and running. This is a big issue for administrators of th...
almost 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 2 Not under consideration

ITNM and ITNCM support for Cisco viptela devices

As we are moving our branches to SDWAN devices, we are looking for ITNM and ITNCM support Cisco Viptela devices
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration