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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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Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
25 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
29 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Expansion of Portfolio to Korea Hosting(MS Azure-Seoul)

As per the link on the page below, KT has signed a strategic partnership with MS. https://news.microsoft.com/2024/09/28/kt-corporation-and-microsoft-take-giant-step-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-korea/ KT Cloud, a subsidiary of KT, has a plan to ...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
23 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
14 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
14 days ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2 Submitted

Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
8 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

Add more collection operators to filter expressions

Existing collection operators are ".Where", ".Count", and ".Contains". It would be useful to have other operators like ".sum", ".max", ".min", etc. The Metrics and Validation rules DSL support these operators; it would make sense for the filter ex...
9 days ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Submitted

Single Unique Identifier Column

Currently plans contain unique identifier information in two fields when on the summary page. UID for Other Expenses are tracked in the "Line Item Code" field while Contracts UID is tracked on the "Source Line Item Code" field. Please provide the ...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted