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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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User-friendly feature needed: GUI-based preexisting setup/config clone to create new

AS-IS: each new custom setup (incl. observer job config, policy, etc.) we have to manual enter all para one by one. Desired TO-BE: ================= Target use case (NOT limit to, but same principle cross over): #1. Define > Integration (Incl. ...
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Integration > Dynatrace(DT) > events load: to-include associated ticket (DT# P-)info

AS-IS: ====== Integration > dynatrace > event load > post-load event: incident & alerts page > no dynatrace P- info found, P- is dynatrace side ticket# info. Note: current cloudpak seems to grab the events from {dynatrace-SAAS-...
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support oAuth for integration with 3rd party platforms

Unlike Basic Auth, OAuth doesn't provide the weakness in sharing password data. oAuth uses authorisation tokens to verify an identity. Many vendors that provide platform access, provide an optional or mandatory mechanism of API access. Versa for e...
19 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Under review

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

All pages that have a graph and filtering radio buttons should also filter the included data table below the graph

In an enterprise environment, focusing on the critical issues is the primary use case driver of using an APM. As such, being able to quickly, and easily sort and order issues is critical. On the various event graphs there is a radio button to hide...
20 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Improving Resiliency #4: avoid impacts to r3batch when SAP have enabled trace to BTCOPTIONS BATCHTRACE_MODULE / BAPI_XMI_LOGON

TWS was unable to establish a RFC connection with SAP and submit jobs when a trace was enabled to BTCOPTIONS BATCHTRACE_MODULE / BAPI_XMI_LOGON in SAP system. Through the logs, the error returned was limited to "EEWO0950W the RFC user is already l...
23 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Bringing network topology onto ASM GIS map

The customer is running AIOPS 1.6.12 and ASM 1.1.21. We have the GIS map with aggregated data points on the GIS map representing vertices with GIS Lat/Long data. They also have topology based UI with vertices and edges but no capability to bring G...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review