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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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Need to get performance data from IBM Storage and Brocade SAN into Instana

we using only IBM Storage e.g. FS9200, FS9500, FS5xxx and Brocade SAN Directors and Switches. We need to get performance data from these devices into Instana and also into AIOPS for ML purpose either from each device directly or e.g. from Storage ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Storage / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Netcool MessageBus password encryption

Within the MessageBus gateway (and probably probe) configs at $OMNIHOME/java/conf require passwords to be included like in KafkaClient.properties but does not allow those passwords to be encrypted, only the gateway.props can be. We need to be able...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Critical Path DCP

Provide a parameter to desensitize the triggering of EQQP23I Potential Risk Alert Current functionality: Potential risk alerts trigger when a job on the critical network is late, or on abend even if the critical jobs deadline time is many hours in...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

PowerVM - LPAR HA support

LPAR HA setup, when one LPAR from group scales so does also the other for consistency
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Adding sticky bits setgid and setuid on DB2 directories

System details: ITM version: 6.3.7 SP13OS: Linux OS RHEL 7.9TEPS-DB: DB2 v11.5.8.0TDW-DB: Oracle Database 19c We have received a security compliance finding related with DB2 world writeable directories. The following 2 directories are world writea...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 4 Not under consideration

Make the 4 minutes fixed deadline of ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART flexible or provide a new option

We need to be able to add a waiting time to the ONOVERLAP DONOTSTART setting in a stream, this is now hard coded to 4 minutes.OrProvide us with a new option, something like ONOVERLAP CANCEL. Which would cancel itself automatically when the next in...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Java method tracing pre-defined options

Instana is unable to determine the time/performance at the Java “method” level. Instana requires either of the two of traces to be enabled to capture the method level performance, 1. Configuration based SDK trace: No changes on the application cod...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

OpenResty Alpine Module Build for Nginx tracing 1.19.9

Customer is trying to monitor kong.They currently use image based on an alpine image: https://hub.docker.com/layers/kong/library/kong/2.5.1-alpine/images/sha256-6896f87b90dcea49ee7009a9963a709e5644ebf0dff8491d2c010bf7fab6a974?context=exploreT...
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Coupa connector missing in Datalink.

Coupa is not supported in Datalink , but it is present in Datalink Classic. It will be the advantage if it is integration is available in   Datalink same as like Datalink(Classic)
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Instana - Adjust Prebuilt time series graphs for optional way to view the trends.

On many time series graphs, it is hard to see if there are any adjustments in the trends with big numbers probably because the y axis starts at a 0 value. We should allow customers to choose within settings if they want to override this default be...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release