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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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JDBC gateway supporting PostgreSQL database

GSMA accounts are requesting Netcool to integrate to PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system. Many accounts are looking to integrate to postgressql. I see Netcool impa...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Please update SevOne to support monitoring of the most recent Java releases

Update the SevOne JMX monitoring capability to support updated versions of JAVA. When developers build poor JAVA code it will chew through resources assigned to the JVM until such a point until it crashes and goes into garbage collection. Where co...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than one "Report Editor"

Currently, you can only add the "Report Editor" permission to one single user in the User Management panel of the UI. If you try to add more than one, you get an error message stating "* There is already a Report Editor. Designating another one ma...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

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.
6 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add ability to pause target reporting

We have a password that changes and it takes a number of days to reset. In the time it takes update the password the targets try too many times and locks the new password. If we can pause the discovery of the target with a pause button this would ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Quick Add - hide entities based on the role permissions

Users who don't have role permissions to add entities still see the whole list - the idea is to hide the entities that they can not add from Quick Add form.
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

API token and API access like should be able to support customer approved central authority such as fedsso and LDAP

Current customer Security team required us to used LDAP/AD for any API access. currently we use File observer to send topology files using ASM username and password provided by NOI platform. We also doing metric manager integration configuration w...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Under review