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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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Ability to programmatically change rptuser password and insert into users' DWC configurations

I support high-security policies by programmatically generating passwords for accounts used by IWS and making corresponding changes on the IWS side (like with changePassword.sh), without human intervention. The exception is the rptuser account use...
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Able to filter alarms by major and minor and search alarms using identifier in service diagnosis anomaly search

The Customer wants a facility in service diagnosis anomaly search where they can search using major and minor alarms and search using anomaly identifier.
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Compliance housekeeping script

Keep only one distinct policy result for each Managed Network Resource.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Planned for future release

IWSz Specific Dashboard

A product provided Dashboard specific to the IWSz end to end environment should be provided with the product
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Update TWS/d code to prevent a command (conman start) from running if it is already running.

Citi had an issue were the "conman start" command appeared to be executed AFTER the Switchplan job was already running and caused different run number values in different areas where it is stored. This caused the switchplan job to NOT report back ...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for STIBO metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need the ability to trigger Events on individual CPUs with high utilization

I'm working with a customer where 1 or 2 of the CPUs on a server have sustained high CPU utilization. Currently, you are only able to define Events against the overall CPU utilization across ALL CPUs. This server has 192 CPUs. The Average CPU util...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Provide information from textbase MBeans and nested MBeans within Instana.

For the client (Continental) it is very important to see information from textbase MBeans as well as nested MBeans within Instana to determine RC’s. But Instana is not capable to do so because nested Mbeans and textbase MBeans are not recognized b...
9 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Set up monitoring for DB2 threads for Guardian Prod servers in Instana

It is useful for customer to access the real time active DB2 thread counts. It is beneficial for Guardian customer to monitor the ongoing situation of DB2 thread count of cloud activities whether they are heavily consumed or moderate, which helps ...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for Tracing Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP

Customer using Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP cannot trace calls going through this component, losing visibility on the latency and balancing provided by this component. Adding this will complete the view end-to-end of a call entering an OCP cluste...
10 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 1 Planned for future release