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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?

Instana

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Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Support Java Profiling on zLinux/LinuxONE platform

When using Instana for application performance monitoring and tuning, profiling is a useful feature to tune Java applications, currently Java profiling is only supported on x86 platform.
11 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Prior notice is required for releases with screen changes

If the release involves screen changes, Instana users must be notified, educated on user operation, and procedures must be changed. Please share the change information before the screen is actually changed. It is fine to simply have release notes ...
11 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Needs more information

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
4 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 3 Submitted

Process monitoring dashboard

We are using IBM ELM suite of applications on distributed environment and we have around 19 different applications running currently on our environment. We want to monitor that all our process on production are up and running fine. Hence we wanted...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Under review

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Instana lose visiblity to POSTGRES DB (running on OCP) after the POSTGRES cluster restart, it resets to default settings

We are trying to monitor CP4AIOPS & CNEA/AMS on OCP. We follow the document (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-postgresql#enable-statistics-collection) to enable tracking so Instana can mon...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

If Number of Jobs in Queue is >= threshold then the alert should be triggered.

We have configured some of the jobs visible in Smart alert but still many other jobs are not visible in smart alerts to enable this monitoring parameter. The support team has identified reason behind and it is that only Top 20 Jobs would be visibl...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link connecting to the specific analyzed page for monitoring in detail

The customer in charge of IBM MQ monitoring requested the feature, which is "Instana Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link directly connected to the specific analyzed page" for monitoring in detail. The reason is that he wants to see the ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review