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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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Adding ticket IWA_DESCRIPTION, IWA_CATEGORY and IWA_TICKET parameters in the IWA dashboard

Adding ticket IWA_DESCRIPTION, IWA_CATEGORY and IWA_TICKET parameters in the IWA dashboard as we have status, workstation, priority columns. This will help the DWC users to associate the ticket number, action and category details against an action...
26 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Improve the usability of the search textbox

improve the usability of the search text box.1. its position is confusing (where is search box!?)2. the filter selection select box is mistaken for the search text box.3. I have to press the magnifying glass icon to search (I want to input search ...
26 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Instana Reporting Capability

We have notice that Instana does not have reporting capabilities like Grafana reporting or Tivoli Common Reporting. We are requesting to add following reporting capabilities: Automated Scheduling: Schedule regular reports, including daily, weekly,...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0

Add support for recent versions of CA Spectrum (22.x) for the Netcool nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba probe

We (DOD / Defense Information Systems Agency) need to forward alerts from Spectrum CA to Netcool. The Spectrum version we are running is 22.2.8.0.13. Documentation for the Spectrum probe only indicates that it is supported through version 10.0.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

IWS Installation with sedmgr -m all

Hello, We were getting troubles installing IWS 9.5 FP07 agent on a AIX OS LPAR using the sedmgr -m all settings on. The keytool and java binaries included in the IWS package install won't work if we didn't make them a sedmgr exception before they ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
about 1 year ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release

Enable VMEM and VCPU Minimum Thresholds for Cloud based VMs

When dealing with 3rd party products, support plans, and licensing, there are often constraints placed on systems for preserving a minimum specification. Same would be true for maximums when it comes to things like database licensing that is tied ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration