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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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Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Future consideration

Possibility to trim the UTC +/- details and display only the city detail in the MWM new entry creation page.

Our operations team are getting confused by the UTC + / - details before the city names in the timezone drop-down from the MWM new entry creation page. For example Eastern timezone was showing as UTC -5 prior to day light saving start and now show...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Option to export MWM table contents to excel/flat file.

Our operations team need to review the maintenance entries often on ad-hoc basis. Its not practical to ask them to copy paste from the page or export from the ImpactDB everytime when they may need it because they cant involve Impact administrators...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Request to upgrade agent code and corresponding sensors to detect all hazelcast applications in the packaged folder.

When two or more Springboot with hazelcast applications are packaged and run into a single tomcat server’s webapps folder, only one of them is detected. Upgrade agent code and corresponding sensors to detect all hazelcast applications in the above...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Sorting Function in "Apply Native Command Set" Menu

Hello, regarding PMR 20378,999,724 we're opening this RFE.When someone wants to apply a Native Command Set to only some devices in a Realm, you have to search the right device(s) in a unsorted list (view Screenshot). A sort function or a standard ...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Future consideration

Allow Instana data source in Grafana to "Skip TLS verify" when using proxy

The Instana plugin in Grafana doesn't work if you use the proxy mode and the Instana on-prem uses a self signed certificate. You get this error message:Proxy request failed" err="x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" Most other data sourc...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

How can know the Consumers counts for which queue in Instana, We can only see the total here

I WANT TO want to know for each queue how many consumer there are. the count number are the total number for each queue there in instana. we can see the queue list below in instana,but I want to know how many number count for each queue have(we ca...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support for Db2 Connect

Transaction flow where we are accessing Db2 for z/OS data with Db2 Connect support is needed.
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Update OMNIbus WebGUI to process ExtendedAttr as if it was Details

With NcKL being moved away from details() and instead using nvp inside ExtendedAttr, we need a way to make that field (ExtendedAttr) human readable/consumable. A fourth tab should be added to an alarm when double-clicked (Information tool), which ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration