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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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Auto Recover from Hung threads and connections

Terminate any hung threads in application server(WebSphere) and close the hung DB connections without the need to restart the application process.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Add a Native Dashboard to control the PODS and Deployments - Has the ability to add Nodes and Control the Kubernetes World

Customers and Teachnical (IBM Employees) would have a GUI interface to manage Kubernetes and not be restricted to command line only - https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/web-ui-dashboard/
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

DASH Console Integration [REST] with Netcool/Impact with OAuth like Google

Please facilitate DASH to authenticate using OAuth like Google based Netcool/Impact for it's REST console Integration to work
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Tracing through Ivory & CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) with Instana

SOAP endpoints running in CICS are recognised in Instana as endpoints only when served through an Ivory Server and the CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). Native CTG tracing should provide insights required to expose endpoints as Service entities in I...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Numeric span tag data type support for custom traces

In its current implementation all custom tag data are treated as string data and filter by the related operators (is present, equals, not present, contains etc). Please see a screenshot of the existing operators available for custom tags via the I...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2

Monitor external https endpoints

There are components /services in an application which do some calls to external http based services. I can see this calls in the analyze trace view. Is there a possibillity to get an aggregated view how this external service performs? In e.g. App...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Trace AWS Lambda for arbitrary function

Currently its expected that a Lambda function implements the interface com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler to get traced. Because this interface is not needed, it should be possible to trace any Lambda function.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Not under consideration

Impossible to install iSeries Agent on iASP storage

Installation on iSeries does not work if the user library has been bound to an iASP storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_storage_pool).The installation fails in the step that configures the iOS part.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Service_Name - Oracle Sensor

TADDM (Oracle sensor) currently does not store Oracle Service_Name during discovery of Oracle RAC environments.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release