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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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IWS/About specification change of message notification from MDM

User has troubled job management due to mailman down of Domain Manager. Case No : TS001488604.As a result of the analysis, the cause was found to be an overflow of the Domain Manager message file (. Msg).While stopping some FTAs ​​during periodic ...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Custom job flags

Have the ability to put user made flags against jobs on any workastation, in any job stream to be able to monitor these jobs in DWC filtering against this flag. Like the CRITICAL flag, but without prioritisation.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Additional Workstation Columns

Our operators are looking to have other column when viewing workstations. Workstation Unlinked Time Agent Running Stopped TimeWriter Running Stopped Time
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Planned for future release

Multiple datasets for actuals & plans

We have a client which works with 2 different sets of plans. Each using different set of actuals. When publishing the plan into CT, it would be nice to have 2 entity mappings for the plan (each with its own dataset).
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Under review

Support for getting Logs through API

In Instana we are able to get all data from the API but the logs. We need to expose an API to extract logs. This would also help to extend retention of logs outside Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use SSO/SAML over Azure Cloud with Dynamic Workload Console

We are currently using DWC 9.5 FP5 and would like the capability to use Azure SSO/SAML for authentication of our user groups. We were able to get pretty far in the process in that, we could: Enable SAML 2.0 via the server.xml file Connect to our S...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Increase Maximum Byte Constraint on "Node" (Currently 51 bytes)

Node name currently has a maximum byte size of 51 chars. We have nodes with FQDN's source AWS that require 75 chars. We request that node name be increased to some value at or exceeding 128 bytes to facilitate long node values in the future. Appli...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ProcessID missing in joblogs for windows processes

CASE ID - TS003942595During investigations to identify long running issues of a job, we found that Windows ProcessID is not supplied back to the Job Log, Yet for Linux/Unix processes the ID is provided. This makes tracing the process thats causing...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

The Filter Options on Object Manager should default to "show both"

Every admin should, by default, get a holistic view of what the discovery for a device is actually doing. If they cannot make this a default, then at least make it an option in the settings to make this the default.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Not under consideration

Instana should integrate with DB2 DBA/Management tools for deep dive export DB performance for troubleshooting and administration.

Instana customer have to use 3rd party DB management tools, like DBMariine, to retrieve more detail DB2 performance information for troubleshooting. Suppose Instana should integrate DB2 DBA related tools.
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration