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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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Improve Dex Logging.

When attempting to configure Single Sign On with the NMS when pressing Save after checking "Enable SSO" in the Cluster Manager page it often fails with just a generic error banner. There is no logging under either /var/log/dex.log or in the dex co...
5 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Is a defect

Add Build to Batch Actions Panel

Instead of having to click into individual user stories, features, etc. or using the search functionality in the Build detail view, allow the Build to edited in bulk. It is a common scenario to add a group of user stories to a Build rather than on...
5 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Correct discovery of links in topology when mib ifstack is not enabled.

According to case TS016456788, the IBM engineering team reported that they need to investigate a way to discover topology links when the mib ifstack is not enabled on the equipment.
5 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Add support for FiberHome equipment in TNM

Add support for FiberHome equipment in TNM via manufacturer-provided OIDs as set out in support case TS016939673.
5 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Resource alerts in Topology

When looking at a resource in topology, we have a tab showing the resource's alerts. Unfortunately, we can only see a summary, severity and the last change. Seeing full details on the alarm, we have to switch to the Alerts Viewer. It would help a ...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add 2FA to Delete Vendor Credentials

When there are multiple admins for CLDY, there is a risk of unintentionally deleting a CSP account's credentials with a single click on the delete icon. While alerts are available for such actions, they are mostly reactive and do not prevent the i...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
9 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Allow for defining custom date and time formats. This should be globally or per tenant. Maybe have a few predefined formats to choose from. Maybe have ISO 8601 as the default. Let us choose the default time zone as UTC regardless of our local time zone. This should cover all places where a date and time is displayed - unless it came from an external source like in metadata. Maybe let a different format be chosen per widget if needed.

Having a consistent format across all tools would be very nice to have, so being able to define it in DI would help in that. Having everything default to UTC would be very nice since 100% of our reports are displayed in UTC and the SevOne cluster ...
21 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
20 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted