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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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control rerun frequency interpretation

Currently when a rerun frequency is defined on a job in a job stream that frequency is interpreted differently depending on whether there is a job level earliest start time on the job. Without the earliest start time the rerun frequency is interpr...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

New Joined Hosts to new default zone

Dears, How can we set / configure Instana to add new joined hosts to a certain zone instate of "Undefined Zone"? We need all new joined hosts to be member of "New servers" zone for example instate of "Undefined Zone"... and later we can configure ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Notification Toggle

After discussion with Business Partner in Taiwan, they would like to promote Turbonomic to their customers who also using AWS. However, their customer's AWS account is Block Billing, which means the AWS cost explorer API is not accessible in the c...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

OpenTelementry OTLP Connector for AI Manager

OpenTelementry is an observability standard to generate, collect and transmit key telemetry signals (traces, metrics and logs). Instead of relaying the collected data via a intermediate toolings (e.g. ELK, prometheus) from instrumented application...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Supports HTTP Tracing for ppc64le little-endian architecture

Important finance company in Peru, is about to acquire Instana and needs to monitor with Instana agents the trace of its web servers. This is possible but the architecture is not supported.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

New ITNM collector to support the discovery of Huawei U2020

Hi Team,Globe has commission a newer version of Huawei U2020. We need ITNM to discover this device, but ITNM doesn't have a collector to enable discovery. Details of the EMS:- Product Name U2020Product Model U2020 V300R019Product Version U2020 V30...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Reminder message for user if the logging level is left outside of Info.

Oftentimes if there is an issue where a customer has to do some deep digging on an issue the logging level is changed from Info to perhaps Debug or Trace level. Sometimes mistakes are made and the logging level is not set back to Info. When this h...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add imported groups to the Groups management page

Idea: Add a new section to the Settings|Groups management page that shows imported groups and their origin Currently, when you navigate to Settings|Groups, you do not see groups that have been imported from vCenter or other targets. The imported ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add Java Sensor Support for: Jobrunr Scheduling Framework as Quartz replacement

Intoduction: Quartz used to be the standard for scheduling in java application for years. For modern applications JobRunr is the new standard and used a lot in modern applications. https://www.jobrunr.io/en/documentation/alternatives/ Problem: We ...
about 1 year ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration