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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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Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Make MAXDUR/MINDUR available in Job History as are latest start and DEADLINE already present

It is not possible to report on jobs that have exceeded their MAXDUR setting nor those that did not meet their MINDUR setting as this information is not recorded in the TWS database. This request is to include the amount of time the job exceeded t...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

API Support to NCM Compliance Component

NCM's REST API doesn't support the compliance part of the tool. From an NCM perspective, the REST API only works with the "worker" side of the product.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration

New Role to delegate administration at a logical grouping of targets ( SubTenant)

For Enterprises that has multiple departments, with each having their own requirements, it will be difficult to manage the administration centrally. I will be very helpful to have a subtenant (logical) and have an administrator role at that level,...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

SevOne NPM to use Kafka bus in SDWAN Nuage (Nokia)

Currently, NPM SevOne solution collector polls the Nuage, elastic search cluster to receive flows. However, as per the cluster grows it becomes more loaded. Therefore, taking longer to respond NPM SevOne collector. Nokia ES cluster is limited to &...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Not under consideration

Get traces from CloudFlare Edge Workers

Instana does not seem to provide this at the moment.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 2 Not under consideration

Supported migration path to new OVA deployment

Allow configuration data and historical data to be migrated from one XL deployment to a new XL OVA deployment. This would benefit all users who wish to deploy a newer version of the OVA for security or other reasons and remove the need for a lot o...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated for a single data point in the aggregate table for the month.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add more options for "start" time for Release Markers API.

Using Cloud Pak for Integration, our CI/CD Pipeline uses ArgoCD and Argo Notifications. Argo Notifications does not support UNIX timestamp in milliseconds. Only seconds or microseconds. It would be very helpful if for example the Releases API coul...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Add Citrix Hypervisor support to the main stream hypervisor support in Turbonomic

Citrix targets and support for its targets are not prime time at the moment in Turbonomic.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration