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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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Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the storage Limit of 64 kb for the alerts.status

After including analytics and runbook automation the amount of storage increase in the alerts.staus. We will change to Watson AIOps, but this is not possible the IBM internal fields use the bigest part of the hard limit of 64kB of the alerts.statu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancing RabbitMQ monitoring by decoupling queue metrics from node affiliation or implementing automated metric udates once a queue is reloacted to a diffrent RabbitMQ node

For RabbitMQ in a multi-node environment, Instana message queue metrics are tied to specific nodes, causing issues when message queues are relocated to different nodes due to node failures. This leads to failed updates and no data representation i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Integration DPOD - Instana

DPOD allows to see in depth what happens with the transactions on the datapower, instana does not have this functionality and it would be complementary to have this information at the application level, trying to have a complete end-to-end view.
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Be able to change work station type

To simplify transition for objects defined on extended agent to dynamic pool agent. To be able to change workstation type from extended agent to dynamic pool on the go for migrations purposes.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
3 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Allow faceted search for items within workflows

One enhancement I would have loved to have is a faceted search for object, arrays, block names, etc... for within a single workflow (being edited) and accross workflows.
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Under review

Expand RNA user registry

Currently the RNA user registry has username, first, last names and password. Can we add email address and GECOS fields to the user options? Our usecase is to associate accounts to individual employees.
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Needs more information

Log window output enhancements

Would find it very convenient to be able to close all non-executing (stopped) log tabs with one button. Right now I have to click many times to close all the older tabs. e.g., "close all"
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review