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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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AI for future migration/lift/shift.

I am an IBM customer involved in a years long effort to lift and shift out of now unsupported IIB to ACE. Lots of manual stare/compare. Need to apply AI tactically to be able to do first cut of that in next thing past ACE so I dont have to do this...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Support for Redis Sensor on native IBM i Agent

Redis is data service that is one of the most popular NoSQL DBs.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Support for Apache Sensor on native IBM i agent

Apache is a commonly used open source web server that is likely adopted by many IBM i customers. Having sensor support would allow Apache services to be seen in calls/dependency mapping.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Allow customers to remove disassociated cloud accounts from Vendor Credentials

It would be good to have the ability to remove accounts from Vendor Credentials that are disassociated or removed from the cloud provider. It doesn't cause harm; it's a question of clean-up and overall management.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Use regex to identify inventory and credential in policies

While creating a policy which should run an ansible playbook as a part of runbook, the ansible template requires some mandatory informaiton like inventory name, host name, credentials, arguments/parameters, I want to use a regex to fetch this info...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Enable Proxy input for PagerDuty & CP4AIOps integration

A PagerDuty integration provides event data that is analyzed and processed into alerts. TELUS team has raised Case number - TS018476897 for this problem and raising this RFE as well to enable Proxy input by dev team. "We intend to integrated betwe...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review