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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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Alerts on Apdex/SLA/SLI/SLO

Currently the data is only visible on custom dashboards It would be nice to have the option to alert on this, and also have those more prominent in the Application Perspective Overview.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Future consideration

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Validation Rule for Program/Group Entity

The Program/Group Entity is not present in the Validation Rule.Ask : We should be able to create a validation rule for Program/Group Entity
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Instana API: Inclusion of Synthetic Trace Calls in Instana API Query for Analyze Trace

Dear IBM Instana Team, Our team frequently utilizes the Instana API to retrieve in-depth alarming details by closely scrutinizing trace details. This has significantly aided our performance analysis and error identification efforts. However, we ha...
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Allow Impact role 'impactWebServiceUser' to be able to run API Calls

Currently only one user group 'impactAdminUser' is a having access to run REST API in Netcool/Impact. Role 'impactAdminUser' has elevated permissions and dont want this permissions for users who just want to run REST API calls. Could you please se...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Being able to process v3 SNMP traps by auto discovering EngineID

Currently the SNMP (mttrapd) Probe only supports configuring the Engine ID's first, before being able to receive the SNMPv3 Traps. Probe should work in following fashion , this will take out of manual work to monitor traps from 100s thousands devi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Turbo should not recommend Disk Size changes for Azure HyperScale DBs - they autoscale.

bad actions reduce faith in the product and waste time. This is distracting the customer for really good actions - like HyperScale scaling.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Functionality already exists

Support for newest version of NGINX (Nginx Plus v29)

Customer according to security reason made the upgrade to newest NGINX. Bacause libraries for version v29 are not availabe they have lost some monitoring abilities for critical systems. We need support for v29 version ASAP.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Multiple Labor Allocation Rule Reference Data Versions

The ability to save different versions of Labor Allocation Rules to be used for current year Forecast and next year Budget.  The facilities loadings, vacancy rates, bonus %, insurance costs, etc vary from year-to-year.  We currently must...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration