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Edit name of resource group after it's created

Once you create a resource group for topology resources in the UI, you can't go back and edit the name of the resource group. If you have to change the name of the resource group for a variety of reasons, you have to recreate the resource group fr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Auto Upgrade JVM with Instana

Please update Java(Azul or Eclips) when updating instana via the agent update. As vulnerabilities appear instana should update the Java it uses and allow for the update to be seamless
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Have EventGateway to associate symptom Events to Root Cause Events by using @ServerSerial-@ServerName instead of @Serial

In an environment with ITNM connected to a Helper ObjectServer Pair, the Event Gateway is associating the Symptom events NmosSerial with the Serial Number of the Root Cause event in the Helper ObjectServer, this causes the Root Cause to Symptom ev...
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Signing Instana agent images

Instana agent images should be digitally signed to verify content integrity.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Oracle SAM policy to support multiple databases

TSAMP is used for keeping Oracle highly available, but currently only supports one database (one database in the SAP-licensed Oracle policy).
over 8 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

remove note 'custom field' from custom unit's header

No description provided
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Not under consideration