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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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Adding Compute Express Link CXL Devices to Cloud Pack for Watson AIOps

This is very important in the Cloud Satellite which needs more attachments with the CXL Devices for Acceleration nof AIOps for the Enterprises On-Premise or Hybrid Cloud with Edge Computing. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Co...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Sub flow Monitoring inside the main flow of the Integration Node for IBM ACE Middleware

Its useful because many of the Financial Institutions like Banking sector would want to see the traces sub flows inside the main flow of any Integration Node in IBM App Connect.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

HashiCorp integration with IWS for secure connection between DB and IWS master

There should be a way to intigrate HashiCorp with IWS .We saw security team in organation asking to use Hashicorp to secure the connection/authentication between IWS master and oracle database as we are using XML file to pass password/Username (ev...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

NCM Compliance result should give more meaningful Evaluation

Currently it's hard for user to identify which evaluation in NCM Compliance that's failing or passed. IN each of the execution, under each run, it only show list of Evaluation which mapped to each definition. If 1 of the definition failed, user on...
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to add Dynamic Custom payloads to Alerts

Need to be able to add Dynamic custom payloads to an Alert. Currently, within Instana, you can add Dynamic custom payloads globally. But many parameters don't make sense to add globally. For example, I don't want to add an MQ Queue Name to a java ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that re

In managing variants sap from IWS extend the length of the fields from 45 to 132 characters to allow complex formulas that require a length of over 45 cha.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Validate/Edit the policy and how to migrate the learnt policy from one env to other

CNEA - validating the machine policy learning, how to unlearn, and how to migrate the learnt policies between environments. If we give the task to validate the grouping to an SME, how does a business person validate the policy, able to edit, able ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Fix Message Bus Probe Inability to Handle Multiple Topics

When the Message Bus Probe is connected to multiple topics and a single topic has corrupt data, the probe fails for all topics, rendering the entire probe useless. This forces us to create separate probes for each individual topic and separate pro...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration