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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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ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool should show/use all information available

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool : Use all available information (L2, L3, routing information (costs, type, ..) in PathView + HopView
about 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Not under consideration

On demand filters for monitoring data

We're using the Instana API to keep our configuration identical across multiple Instana backends that exist for our different production environemnts. To simplify our process and improve useability of the tooling, we'd be interested in the possibi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Setting Delay in sending threshold trap to destination

If we impose a delay suppose 5 min , It will be helpful to avoid the alerts which are clearing in 5 minutes of time not send to netcool or the destination event manager and subsequently we can avoid these tickets. Now due to lack of this feature ,...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Not under consideration

Need to get performance data from IBM Storage and Brocade SAN into Instana

we using only IBM Storage e.g. FS9200, FS9500, FS5xxx and Brocade SAN Directors and Switches. We need to get performance data from these devices into Instana and also into AIOPS for ML purpose either from each device directly or e.g. from Storage ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Storage / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Adding sticky bits setgid and setuid on DB2 directories

System details: ITM version: 6.3.7 SP13OS: Linux OS RHEL 7.9TEPS-DB: DB2 v11.5.8.0TDW-DB: Oracle Database 19c We have received a security compliance finding related with DB2 world writeable directories. The following 2 directories are world writea...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 4 Not under consideration

New function in Impact for dealing with special characters

As suggested in case, we would like to suggest creating new function for handling special characters. In rules file for probe exists similar function called printable(). In situation when event need to be updated through Impact policy and event co...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Get EventId Info from Log.

Dears, It will be better to get EventId info from log file... We should get more info for an EventId from log files...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7750 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7750 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to unavailability of ITNCM drivers
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7450 version 23.x

We need ITNCM driver for Alcatel Switch 7450 to support version 23.7 or later so that as part of Network lifecycle upgrade, our Config Management capability is not impacted due to unavailability of ITNCM drivers
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

Create alternative container rightsizing action execution to directly update pod resource

The idea is mimc vertical pod autoscaler (VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler) initial mode. "Initial": VPA only assigns resource requests on pod creation and never changes them later. This is just anot...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration