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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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We are requesting that the DWC time field support the more conventional 12:00 - 12:59 AM/PM and/or 24 hour clock value.

An inconsistency was discovered in the DWC Workload Designer that impacts time fields, such as Earliest Start, Latest Start, Deadline, etc. We are unable to specify any value between 12:01 and 12:59, whether AM or PM. Specifying 12:00 is allowed. ...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Application Topology Definition - Add support for missing entity types, e.g. Azure App Services entities

Application topology Definition currently only support the following entity types: Business Application Service Application Component Namespace Virtual Machine Workload Controller Database Database Server Other entity types such as App Component S...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Planned for future release

Visibility of sensitive data

From the transactional portal of a client that performs a query to the iSeries and is displayed in Instana, from the “analytics” functionality some sensitive data is evidenced that must be filtered. It was detected that from a call to the database...
6 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Planned for future release

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

Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

User onboarding dialog requires selecting preferred timezone which is limited/outdated. Provide a means to customize.

We have customers in a wide variety of geos and tailoring to their needs is necessary and useful.
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 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
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claim built-in metrics and Events

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume (PV) and Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) built-in metrics and Events. PV/PVC metrics are essential to monitoring applications storge, however, Instana doesn't provide built-in metrics nor Events to cover the stor...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3

Automatic use of certificate for Infrastructure management

When accessing Infrastructure management, a self-signed certificate is currently used. Infrastructure automation appears to discovery a certificate from the OpenShift cluster and works well, but Infrastructure management reports a the site as "not...
5 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review