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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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Enable Dash Login page customizations

Multiple customers using the option to customize their DASH Login page with their own company logo. This option is currently not available for a full cloud installation of Netcool Operations Insight. It is only available for hybrid installations. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

News Banner on IWS DWC portal after user login

If there option to add cusmised Colored scrolling or fix News Banner on IWS DWC portal after any Oprator login to portal,Thsi will be very usefull to anounce planned CRQ for IWS or DWC portal or Admin can put outage details in advance in News Banner
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Clone OCP and NOI configurations from an existing system to a newly created system

The customer has one OCP that runs NOI test and NOI prod as a full cloud installation. The problem with this setup is that sometimes operations are used on one NOI, that also affect the other NOI instance on the same OCP. To avoid such dependencie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards: Creating calculated values and then plotting them

In custom dashboards today, we can't seem to create a calculated value and then plot it as a single line. For example: 1) Go to dashboards and create a new time series widget. 2) Use data source: Infrastructure & Platforms 3) For metrics, u...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Add refresh button on Resource manager window

Refreshing the window allows user to see updates
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Submitted

User-friendly way of managing SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting/eventing

Currently, in order to manage SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting, you must create a rules file that will map the OIDs and Varbinds of the trap, as defined in the vendor's MIB, to the event schema. We do offer some tooling that will take a vendor MIB...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration