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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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Real time visibility of Security & Compliance posture/state of VMs/Servers

Ensure the clients' environments are managed according to regulatory standards (PCI, HIPPA, etc). Visibility of the posture is the key to enable that. As a Security Analyst (ISA, ISM, GSPM, Security DPE), I need real time visibility about Security...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Show status change history of MFT transfers

Our customer needs to track their MFT file transfers and they need to have insights in when file transfers change their status from Started to Progress and finally Successful or Failed. So we need some kind of table that lists all the status chang...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Perform a search based on actual model.

To have the ability to search based on the actual model.I can now search on VTMOS but that shows not always the required result.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Maintenance Dashboard needs Enhancement

Currently the Maintenance Dashboard has the option of creating a Maintenance Schedule for suppressing the alert but as per our audit requirements we need to have the informations about 1. Who created the schedule? 2. Why was this schedule created?...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

TWS Operator Comments Section for each job

While performing operations on jobs like say putting a job on hold, a section to capture operator comments is required. This helps when there are multiple shifts and handover of operations to next shift. By capturing the comments it helps operatio...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Agent Monitoring AMQP status

Currently MQ sensor only support channel status and MQTT channel status, AMQP type is not supported yet. So you will see it in channel table, but channel status is not in the same table with common channels. MQ's output of dis chstatus(*) and dis ...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana WEB monitoring API key protection against malicious data ingestion

Currently WEB monitoring configurations on Instana are allowing anyone having access to the key used in the JavaScript configuration to ingest data. For security reasons it would be nice to limit the acceptance of data ingested by using a particul...
12 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

Add Release marker end timestamp

I can create and update a release marker and it has a timestamp for start and last-updated. Is it possible to express a time range, to show up a long deployment? At the moment, our pipelines create a release marker, after all pods in a rolling upd...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

ALLOW ServiceNow API to allow connection to IWS plugin using a Proxy

TS013706895 I’m currently working on IWS 95.06 to ServiceNow integration using the ServiceNow Plugin. using DWC The ServiceNow instance we use at our site is in the Cloud . We therefore are required to go through the YBS proxy server to connect to...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Change/Enhance client behaviour for Instana EUM to prevent network peaks

With current eum config. potential network issues/overload are possible (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-mobile-app-monitoring-faq#what-happens-for-users-with-bad-internet-or-network-connections )Pl...
12 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration