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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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Display USRLEV setting in IWS via an operator command

With the introduction of Continuous Delivery, the USRLEV parameter can potentially be changed with new maintenance release roll-outs. To ensure that we are able to verify the USRLEV on each sysplex, we would like to have the option of displaying t...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered

Ratio Based Alerts for HTTP Status Codes

Hi Team, I want to place a request to have alerts based on Ratio rather than just having based on having alerts on daily and weekly seasonality. This is required as we are growing. We might see some common errors increasing in the system and avoid...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Permission to Enable/disable Heap Dumps create Option (JVM Backchannel Options) from Instana UI

Dear IBM Instana Development Team, I am sharing some insights and suggestions from our Instana software experiences. While we greatly appreciate the software's capabilities, we have identified a potential area for improvement concerning the Heap D...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Client wants an enhancement on the Impact Maintenance page

Would like to have the ability to select an overnight schedule on the re-occurring maintenance option:(Recurring Day of Week Time Windows) if I select days of the week and then the time frame: 11PM - 6AM it does not allow me to do that.it wants me...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Labor tab: Ability to compare Headcount data between Plans

currently its only available for expenses. We need the same functionality for Headcount as well (for example grouping total headcount by Product line in specific location between current forecast and prior forecast, we would like to have this opti...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Delivered

SmartModel Driver for Cisco Nexus switches to add support for NXOS 8.* and 9.*

Current SmartModel driver only supports older OS releases
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Delivered

TNCM - Autodiscovery with multiple commands for VTMOS on devices that need of more that one command to do it

ITNCM - autodiscovery with multiple commands for VTMOS on devices that need of more that one command to do it System: Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager Actor: Customer/User needing new feature We have on TNCM the autodiscovery function t...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM NetAct collector missing device types

ITNM NetAct collector configuration is missing below device types of NetAct managed network elements.AAA,AXC,CBAM,CBIS,CMREPO,CSCF,CSCFLCC,CSCFVNF,DDE,DRA,DSC,ENET,EPDG,GOMS,HPHW,HSS,HSSCALLPVM,HSSFE,HSSMGMTVNFC,HSSVNF,IMSHW,IMSNFM,IMSOAM,INBL,ISB...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Abilty to alert on EUM resources using SmartAlerts

currently The customer has the issue that sometimes google analytics is not working for our website "ccp-frontend-new". For that time they see in Instana that there are no resources loaded for GA (which is great to see).Therefore The customer want...
over 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 3 Delivered