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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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Group Template Modify/Delete - Display user friendly message on UI

When Group Template is deleted/modified/enabled or disabled, user had no clue that re-computing is happening in the backend. User might go ahead and perform another action on the same template, while in background there is still consolidation happ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Edit name of resource group after it's created

Once you create a resource group for topology resources in the UI, you can't go back and edit the name of the resource group. If you have to change the name of the resource group for a variety of reasons, you have to recreate the resource group fr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Making it easy to identify SqlInjection

For HTTP calls performed by GET, when a SqlInjection or other types of intrussions, one of the parameters in the query string contains the atack command (SQL or OS). In the application perspective, it is possible to filter by the partial content ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Java Gateway for JDBC 2 requires to respond with nco_ping

IBM Netcool/OMNIbus Java Gateway for JDBC 2 currently does not listen on the port where omni.dat defines. This is not like other traditional gateway. so that the gateway is not nco_ping-able. Sometimes, this feature is required for a cold standby ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to analyze deployed version if different technologies

As Instana is capturing the currently deployed version of a software, we would like use this information in order to search for vulnerable and outdated versions (in addition to a source-based dependency analysis). We did try to analyze the deploye...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Kill Zombie Jobs: Add functionality to be able to recover from a corrupted Jobtable on an FTA

When an FTA crashes and gets a corrupted Jobtable and the Jobtable must be removed, jobs that were in EXEC status before the crash remain in EXEC state and take run slots against the server limit, and job stream limit if applicable, even after the...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Please support AWS Managed Grafana Datasource

We would like to create a feature Request for support of AWS Managed Grafana: https://aws.amazon.com/de/grafana/ A list of supported datasources you can find here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/grafana/latest/userguide/AMG-data-sources-builtin.html ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

TADDM should create IpDevice for ALL IPs that respond to ping

Expectations are that all active IPs will be detected by TADDM, and at a minimum IpDevice will be created. We have detected this is not happening today. Today, TADDM only detects devices with certain TCP ports active. RFE is to enhance the PingSen...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Set the `release` label for the `kube_pod_container_status_ready` metric (and any others that have it defined) to the value of the `release` label of the pod.

I'm working on some Grafana dashboards for monitoring MCM. We'd like to be able to filter based on the pod label named release . I notice in the Prometheus kube_pod_container_status_ready metric there is a release label. It looks like that may als...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Set Action Concurrency per Policy

Customer is using Turbo to migrate VMs from one storage cluster to another. They want to set action concurrency via the UI for the automation policy without impacting the global concurrency settings. For their use case, they wanted to always see 5...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration