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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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Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claim built-in metrics and Events

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume (PV) and Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) built-in metrics and Events. PV/PVC metrics are essential to monitoring applications storge, however, Instana doesn't provide built-in metrics nor Events to cover the stor...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3

Alert for device discovery

When the devices were not being discovered properly the user is unable to find out until unless they are facing any issue. So, I'm thinking to have an alert for the device discovery, which helps to notify the user when the discovery was stuck. Thi...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow for the use of 12:xx to be used in time fields

Since moving to v10.1, we have noticed that the Workload Designer does not allow us to use the "twelve o'clock hour" in any of the time fields. This has been tested by our team at stream level as well as within a run cycle, on the earliest start t...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ITM Windows Agent to use latest VC++ redist version which is currently supported by Microsoft and remove dependency of using VC++ 2008, 2013

Currently ITM Windows OS Agent (NT) is using VC++ 2008 release up to SP5 and VC++ 2013 release from SP6 and above. Both VC++ releases were no longer supported by Microsoft which results in compliance Issue and can also be a security threat. So, we...
7 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 6 Planned for future release

User-friendly way of managing SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting/eventing

Currently, in order to manage SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting, you must create a rules file that will map the OIDs and Varbinds of the trap, as defined in the vendor's MIB, to the event schema. We do offer some tooling that will take a vendor MIB...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Datalink Connector List Export

The current connector list in DataLink only offers limited information. In order to see what tables connectors load into, source and destination time periods, and other details, you need to click into each connector. Attached is a mockup showing t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow greater control over "externalTaskTimeoutMin" API setting by action type

Every different action type has dramatically different timeout expectations. For example, a compute vmotion should have a relatively lower timeout (<45 min), whereas a storage vmotion should account for a longer timeout, with some taking severa...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

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