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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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Enhance List Widget to work with touch and mouse on devices with touchscreen

If a List Widget is loaded on any page of DASH, this List Widget will not show any Scrollbar, if opened on a browser on a device with touchscreen. So it is hard to use with mouse then. Other functionality as HTML-Links within SmartText Widget and ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

New functionality: Tracking discarded traps snmpv3 in mttrapd probe #SPGI #EMEA

Now days it is not possible to have a real tracking about all traps snmp v3. By default the mttrapd probe discards all non registered engineID's, but this is difficult in big environment with devices like F5, where all traps have their own engineI...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Read only access to ALL tasks in Netcool Impact

BOA is needing the ability to authorize a user to have visibility to all functions within Netcool Impact, but disallow edits/modifications. This has to be an ADMIN RO view in the WebGUI within a Group Role.
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Request for support NGINX plus R32

We would like to request the addition of support for NGINX Plus R32 in the IBM Instana Observability platform. Based on the current documentation, the latest supported version of NGINX Plus is: NGINX Plus R31 for Glibc-based Linux and Alpine Linux
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Group the actions in ServiceNow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR.

Group the actions in Snow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR. And is able to select some or all of them. Otherwise the app owners will get deluged with multiple individual changes coming in to approve/rej...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Planned for future release

add support for non-LACP link aggregation

For device discovery when CDP and LLDP are disabled, add support for non-LACP link aggregation. in order to obtain all required link-layer data like link aggregation membership data obtained at Layer 2
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Improve SuperCluster Implementation & Configuration

SuperClustering is one of the more unique & useful features that enables a lot of functionality across environments within Turbonomic. Unfortunately, it can be extremely cumbersome to implement SuperClustering due to requiring specific merge p...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
7 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
7 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Functionality already exists