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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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Support for NGINX in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for NGINX, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 1

customize the email font or attach an image using email notification connector

customize the email font or attach an image using email notification connector
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add sorting options on DI widgets

For UI/UX matters, it would be very useful to be able to save widgets/views in either ascending or descending values, or by certain attributes, but the option is not available. Sorting and saving the report doesn't actually saves it organized as d...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
5 months ago in Instana / Automation 3 Planned for future release

Data Insight Performance Report - Allow Color Range for multiple columns

I have a report I created that shows HC In Octet, HC Out Octet, In Octet and Out Octet for a couple hundred interfaces. Right now I can select one column, and set a color for a specific value. I would expect to be able to select all of my columns ...
22 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Optimisations should report if changes are required before they can be executed

The latest example of this is the asV6 SKUs which have a dependency for the VM to be running the NVMe disk controller, yet the recommendation is being made for VMs wwith SCSI disk controllers. These optimisations then fail when customers try to ap...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Workload Automation: Add support for Amazon RDS for Db2

Please consider adding support for Amazon RDS for Db2. Some IBM Customers plan moving to AWS. If they are using Db2 in their on-premises system, they would like to continue using Db2 even after migrating to AWS. This also applies to IWS DB if they...
22 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Dynamic maps constrained by device and object groups.

I'd like to be able to create a map, for example 'MPLS Core' and configure the map to show all 'ethernetcsmacd' links only between nodes in X,Y,Z device groups. or to specify only links in a given object group. I'd like the map to update dynamical...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
2 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Apptio Views manually managed. Provide the ability to link Views to roles or their Active Directory Groups.

We require Views to be linked to AD roles so that we can manage the cost data privileges that our users hold in the Apptio suite without having to do as we are currently, where for example a user will get a role 'user' or 'admin' and we have to ex...
3 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted