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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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Add tracing capability for MQ MFT

My customer wants to trace the file transfers in MQ
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Other Tracers 1 Future consideration

End Users with Read-Only Permissions cannot edit/add the new report tab in reports after Upgrade SevOne IPPMS from 5.6.2 to 6.3.6

Dear IBM Team, End Users with Read-Only Permissions cannot edit/add the reports tab in reports post Upgrade of SevOne IPPMS from 5.6.2 to 6.3.6. In older version 5.6.2 , user's able to edit the reports and add new report tabs in opened report but ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Improving Resiliency #3: gracefully resuming TWS services even after a sudden TWS stop

Event in a scenario of a sudden TWS Stop (abrupt kill of TWS services), the TWS Agent needs to have the capability of gracefully resuming its services after a failover.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Data source encryption with AES

The current AES Encryption implementation in OMNIbus and WebGUI only allows passwords up to 30 characters long whether encrypted or un-encrypted. If you encrypt a password longer than 16 chars using ncw_aes_crypt script, the encrypted string becom...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Webservice Job: Pooling the execution status in the same webservice jobs

Hi team, We are using webservice jobs run various seeded jobs using the webservice plugins. In second step we are defining an executable job to fetch the report id/request id from the XM response. In last step we are doing the conditional checks i...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Optimise Edgetype mapping on ServiceNow Observer

in ServiceNow Observer, there's need for a bit more intelligence in picking the right default edgetype for relationships .but there seem to be better alternatives Edgetypes available, some relationships are being set to "connectedTo" when there se...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add Proxy support for FTP Monitoring with KIS Agent in ITCAM for Transactions

We are using ISM Agent (KIS) in Version 07.40.02.03 to monitor several protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP We would start with FTP monitoring, but in our company ftp connections are restricted to connect over a give ftp proxy. I was really surprised ...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Add support for Tomcat Server Datasources using the Oracle UCP Driver

This would provide additional visibility into Tomcat applications that use the Oracle UCP datasource. Today there is no visibility for datasource usage on Tomcat servers using the UCP driver. This makes it difficult to correlate pool usage/availab...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration