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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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When importing a template, download the entire set of terraform folders and not just the base folder

We are trying to implement modules for a client, and in this scope we have several individual scripts that accessed the same module. For this to work, we have the module folder one level higher, and then one folder for each of the specific scripts...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Additional actions for the TWSActionPlugIn

Currently, the TWSActionPlugIn only allows for submitting a job stream / job or replying to a prompt. Other actions are also required like:- Cancel Job Stream (with/without pending)- Cancel Job (with/without pending)- Change Job Stream Priority- C...
about 10 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Not under consideration

RBAC-Delegated administration

Separate permissions on access scope level should be introduced that allow/deny configuring application perspectives teammembers and their roles/permissions events ...
about 5 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0

OMNIbus Email Probe to make attachment file names available.

Requesting a feature in the email probe to allow the probe to make available as tokens/elements the filenames for any attachments present in the received email.
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Make Trace Latency = Trace Duration rather than duration of Root Span

In asynchronous processes this can disguise the true duration of a business process and prevent Instana from being able to alert when customers are having a bad experience.
about 5 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Usage and Metering

As an MCM service provider, I’d like to be able to retrieve usage and metering data through our MCM hub via a multi-tenant aware API at relative high frequency (on demand) for billing purposes.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

Analytics to have priority configuration and AND/OR condition

In NOI 1.4.1, user are not able to create pattern for multiple Suggestion given by Analytics.
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Need to create alert based on trace / http metric value

create a custom alert (and thus event in the first instance) in our Production Instana instance.EVENT: The application is "Card Services" the metric is "Call latency" (P99) and the filter I'm trying to apply is on call.http.path that equals a spec...
over 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Switch Domain in Domain Page View

Today you can switch to another a domain, if you are in the "Explore Automation Domains" view. With the new enhancement you can change the domain in this page.
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Transition ION smart driver

Transition ION backup and restore card(media converter) configurations in 19-Slot or 6-Slot Chassis
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration