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Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Trace Duration as Filter for Analytics and dashboards

For monitoring asynchronous systems like batch jobs, messaging it would be great to be able to filter requests based on the duration. Currently it is only possible for latency. Every Trace has this information.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 5 Is a defect

Can we group all our custom dashboards in to folders

It would be great if we have option to group all our custom dashboards in to different folders
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Modify how DA launches a job to mimic how FTA launches the same job

FTA launches a job by first launching jobmanrc and then if LOCAL_RC_OK is set to true, it launches .jobmanrc in the logon user's home dir. In this process, it never sets the variable PATH. A DA launches a job by first launching taskLauncher.sh and...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Create an Account level policy entity type

When accounts have many different resource entity types, it's very cumbersome to create a generic policy for half a dozen resource types across dozens of accounts. If there was an Account policy type, high-level settings such as Action Generation:...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Enable a manual override to stop failing actions in the queue

Currently if there is an issue with permissions or a policy conflict, actions that were manually executed will continue to retry (appears to be indefinitely?) There should be a way to cancel that action so that the logs aren't filled with one-time...

Reporting 'All Devices I Can See' group

To better build out-of-the-box reports in DI, I would like to be able to select a device group that represents all devices I can see based on my UserRole. Presently, as admin, I can build a shared OOTB report based on 'All Device Groups'...when a ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Instana events do not support adding more than five metric conditions.

Some of the situations in my customers data is comprised of more than five conditions that Instana do not support today.I am working on ITM2Instana modernisation offering and we need to transform customer's ITM data into Instana e-g, situation (ev...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ 0 Not under consideration

Enable filtering by role to work when verifying console integration

In the NOI hybrid deployment, NOI configures automatically some console integrations in WebGUI.In the current design, the console integrations are verified at user login, even if the role settings prevent the login user from accessing those consol...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration