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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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Able to associate tags on scheduling objects

Able to add tags such as job owner, severity, queue name. Those tags would be usefull to filter out, send notifications, create incidents etc.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Variable passing value by the predecessor job need to viewable in successor Job log

There are two jobs. First (predecessor) job is SQL job which will pass the variable value to the second job (Oracle EBS job). When we schedule this setup and execute the jobs via job stream, the first job is running and completed fine. After that,...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Need a even / alert generated for missing MQ Objects (queues/channels/topics/subscription etc) including system objects

These objects are very important if go missing, after some incident happens or someone deletes them accidentally can hamper entire MQ operation
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

ITM Tag files for ILMT

US Customs and Border Protection uses ILMT to gather version information in use to ensure they are current. Currently, there are no tag files for the ITM v6 infrastructure components and some of the base monitoring agents (such as HMC). The reques...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

Event on Redis cluster integrity

We would like to monitor our Redis clusters' integrity. We run multiple clusters with multiple shards. Each shard should have at least one replica. Example output from `redis cluster nodes` with three shards each with a replica:# redis cluster nod...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Release Notes / Changelog for API

I never find API related release notes/change logs anywhere. Please publish them with every new release, so that we can understand what has changed and how when updating our services.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Planned for future release

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Proxy support for IWS ServiceNow interface

The IWS ServiceNow interface introduced with IWS v9.4 lacks the ability to specify a proxy server in the call to ServiceNow. I am requesting that that functionality be added.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

the job object to the description on the job object in a given job stream

When defining a job object, we type a description in Workload Designer. See attached RFE01.PNG When using the job object in a job stream, the description field on the job is blank again. Of cource we can just type the descprition again, identical ...
about 12 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

On executable job the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration.

On executable job, the argument BOX should be numbered and extendable to facilitate visualization/alteration. We are converting Control-m to IWs , and numbering the argument box will facilitate when you have to do some alteration on a parm. Exampl...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release