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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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9.2 console, Administration, "Workload Environment Design", "Alter User Password in Plan" has various interface problems

This request involves the interface for "Alter User Password in Plan" in the 9.2 IWS console under the Administration section, "Workload Environment Design" subsection. The interface has various problems which make it difficult and in some cases d...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Workload Scheduler Console 9.3 - Persistent Sort

It would be nice if the sort function under 'Monitor Workload' was persistent between sessions. Or there was some way to bake the sort order into the Query line, so it could be saved for later.
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Event rule that monitors number of executing jobs. The rule should monitor a specified ratio or specified number of executing

Event rule that monitors number of executing jobs. The rule should monitor a specified ratio or specified number of executing jobs. If executing jobs value or ratio meets or exceeds current cpu job limit an action will be performed. Add action to ...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

Dynamic Agents should behave same way as FTA in regads to non-interactive session

On 9.1 FP1 and PMR 78443,010,678 changes was made to the way jobs were started on the FTA. We then created PMR 16192,010,678 since we found that the Dynamic agent behaved in a different manner and got the following response:let me clarify some poi...
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Delivered

Conman equivalent for dynamic agents

Currently, dynamic agents have no capability to track the workload on the system where the dynamic agent is installed (only the TDWC can be used for this task). An equivalent of conman would be required to track workload on the dynamic agent.
about 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

Enhancement ticket for the product future Installations

We request IBM to open an Enhancement ticket for the issue that we are struggling for MDM, BackUp MDM, FTA, Patch, etc. installations. [1] 'root' / 'sudo-root' access requirement: We aren't allowed to be 'root' or 'sudo-root' on a system and execu...
almost 11 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

Enable support for TibcoBW

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
8 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Delivered

Be able to set priority in the Service Now integration (alert channel)

We currently set priority, it seems, in an arbitrary manner. However, its seems that the priority in SNOW is actually based on two other fields: business impact and urgency. This request is to be able to set an impact and urgency field on SNOW ale...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 2 Delivered

Be able to set various fields in the Service Now integration

Currently, we can open a SNOW ticket via our SNOW alert channel. But there is no way to set certain fields (like Category and Assginment Group). This request is to be able to set these certain fields.
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 2 Delivered

Ensure when an incident/issue no longer exists, we send a 'close' to Service Now

Right now our SNOW integration only opens tickets in SNOW. But when an incident/issue no longer exists, we should also send the corresponding 'close' to Service Now.
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered