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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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Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Bringing network topology onto ASM GIS map

The customer is running AIOPS 1.6.12 and ASM 1.1.21. We have the GIS map with aggregated data points on the GIS map representing vertices with GIS Lat/Long data. They also have topology based UI with vertices and edges but no capability to bring G...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
about 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 0 Future consideration

Provide Store and Forward Feature for Message Bus Gateway

Need the same capability as other Netcool/Omnibus gateways for the Message Bus Gateway to store and forward the event data when the targeted message bus is unavailable.
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Promotion to Incident only group of alerts

Incidents are created to categorize the alert and allow notification to the associated ITSM to open a trouble ticket. The Alert Group correlates a series of alerts based on correlation policies. In my view, only alert groups should be promoted to ...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow flexibility in creating new work item types and linking them to other work item types

I would like be able to create new work item types by myself. Then I would like to be able to link them e.g. as custom fields to other work item types.Example: I am using Requirement management in TP but requirements in TP do not have any linking ...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

The "More Information" Link should be available to show justification of the temporal/seasonal/scope-based when RBAC profiles are enabled

Users should be able to view justifications regardless of whether they have a RBAC profile or not. We monitor multiple applications and each application team has their own profile. seeing an alert is seasonal, for example, without the ability to v...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

We really need a way to associate various application assets into a single bundle that can be delivered to other Pliant instances

I know I sound like a broken record on Projects, but we just run into a major issue at Verizon. We built a project that involved a dozen WFs and a dozen API access points. The access points had a fair amount of configuration each, such as custom h...
2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Future consideration

When planning is in maintenance please have a dialog box stating "Maintenance in progress"

Team that have users from all over the globe that have working hours during the maintenance windows. Because it is their normal working hours and the system is down with no explanation it causes people to think something is wrong with the system a...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration