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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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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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Enable SSL configuration for Oracle database connections

We had planned to deploy IWS 9.5FP2 (MDM and DWC) into Amazon cloud however our environment is mandated to use SSL connectivity to RDS instances. Currently only DB2 supports SSL which is not an option for us as Oracle RDS must be used in our AWS e...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

TPC Sensor Enchancement

Currently TPC sensors on TADDM 7.3 FP4 after successful Tivoli Productivity Center / Spectrum Control discovery, does not provide following direct links between objects: StorageSubsystem->Pools->Volumes->Computer System and vice versa. It...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

DWC - Create datasource for a selected flow based on endpoint(s)

We would like to be able in DWC to create a datasource extracting entire flow which one or more given job(s) is/are depending on (no matter job status).
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Create DWC as Windows Service

Please, could you improve the procedure to create a Windows Service for DWC 9.5 / WLP ? A procedure which would allow definition of the Windows service DWC/WLP without having to define systems variables (as described in technote 6129417) based on ...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Service_Name - Oracle Sensor

TADDM (Oracle sensor) currently does not store Oracle Service_Name during discovery of Oracle RAC environments.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Way to provide feedback if probable cause is not the really not the cause, so next time, system should not mark it as probable cause

can we offer a feedback, if probable cause is not the really not the cause, so next time, system should not mark it as probable cause
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add Weblogic Name in filter/group fields of custom dashboards

Today the only attribute related to Weblogic Servers (WLS) is the port. It's clearly not enough. Please include server name in the Dynamics Focus search, the filter and group fields in custom dashboards widgets.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Update batch reports CLI to not require full access to the database

We began piloting the command line reporting function for TWS and, through the support ticket noted, found out that in order for CLI reports to work with an Oracle database, the CLI must be granted access to the TWS object owner account. This is i...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Macro to determine subsystem name of the current PIF-session in Cobol

Programms (Cobol) communicating with IWS via PIF and allocated EQQYPARM-file do not have access to the subsystem name. The internal BIB-block stores or point to this data. However this block ist not documented.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release