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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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Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Send a NodeClickedOn from JazzSM's WebWidget

having the capability of sending NodeclickedOn event from custom HTML and/or Netcool Impact operator views, extends the usability of both products. it increase the interactivity capabilities enormously.. as you can then have completely custom page...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

From Project Explorer's Tables list, add "Unused Object" option for filtering

As a TBMA, I would like to identify which objects are not used by any model. This would allow me to easily locate objects missing inbound/outbound allocations and determine actions (eg delete the object, add driver, add allocation). To identify th...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

file dependecies

Chiediamo che un job che ha come dipendenza l’attesa di un file NON deve scattare/partire appena il file viene creato (quindi ancora con la copia dei dati in corso) ma quando la copia è terminata e/o il file “chiuso dal processo di copia”
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

plugin transfer - replace file in another local path

Chiediamo se è possibile avere un opzione (un checkbox o altro) da selezionare se si volesse eseguire il replace del file che si desidera spostare su altro path nella macchina locale dell'ftp
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Needs more information

post action file transfer

Per ogni file trasferito tramite un job chiediamo che venga eseguito immediatamente la propria post action senza attendere il transfer di tutti i file del job.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration