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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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Extend IWS REST to contain more basic modificaton operations

Please add rest methods for IWS 9.5 to be able easily to do: Add a job into an existing jobstream – that should be a method with few parametersRemove a job from an existing jobstream - that should be a method with few parametersAdd a dependency in...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

able to have an option to change EUM reportingURL in snippet in the UI.

Currently in Instana K8s operator the AcceptorUrls seem to be solely based on the baseDomain. This is then used also in the UI in EUM Website Configuration in reportingUrl and script src, e.g.: <script> (function(s,t,a,n){s[t]||(s[t]=a,n=s[a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Fix extranneous text created in Job Stream Descriptions.

Before 9.4 Jobdescriptions if blank did not show up in composer dump files. Now all the blank descriptions when the JobStream is editted change to "Automatically added by composer" This has the following negative consequences: 1. Dump files are mu...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to custom process name

All our process are named "java", notifications and event regarding the process (like "abnormal termination") are all refereeing to "java process"; I would like to have the possibility to custom it like we do for services.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

In the Netcool JDBC Probe it should be possible to configure a limit for the select statement

The Netcool Omnibus JDBC Probe uses a select statement to read event data from a table. The select returns everything that falls under the "where" condition - and all that data is ingested into the memory of the Probe for processing. When the numb...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Configure ACE Sensor to authenticate through LDAP

ACE RestAdminApi is configured to be accessed with LDAP authentication. While Instana is asking for local user. We need to be able to configure instana agent to access ACE using LDAP
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Mobile App Monitoring - App starts and views performance metrics

Hello, I would like to know if features concerning mobile app performances will be developped in the future ? We are currently using Google's Firebase SDK to track metrics like 'Application start duration' and slow rendering / frozen frames but it...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration

Logging Amazon Kinesis to instana

Hello, A few details about this feature.It would be interesting to explore the possibility to connect from our Kinesis Data stream. We currently push logs with Json format via Kinesis to elasticsearch.The idea would be to be able to push these Jso...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Is there a Netcool Java Remedy Gateway version which supports the latest BMC remedy versions.

The latest BMC remedy versions i.e BMC Helix ITSM version 21.3 ( or 21.05 even). Future BMC Remedy version may also be containerized. We currently use Gateway for Remedy ARS V9: 1.0.9
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration