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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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Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Subscribe feature in comparison report

Hi Team, We need the feature to subscribe to reports where there is compare checked in the dashboards.Presently, it is greyed out.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Gateway for Message Bus should support additional fields for Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property

If integrating the OMNIbus gateway for message bus with Kafka the property Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey only supports either the field ServerSerial or ServerName.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netcoolomnibus/8.0.0?topic=file-properties-command-line-opt...
7 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
9 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

VMem Request recommendation mode - resize ABOVE max

Select the bottom to enable/disable recommendation's generation below and ABOVE the VMem Request value. Adding a screenshot of the tool with the below option already available. Would be possible to add the resize ABOVE, too?
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Functionality already exists

Current Date formula in reports and/or filtering

I would like to implement a dynamic filtering mechanism that automatically adjusts based on the current date. Specifically, I want to embed a formula within the filter logic so that when a report is opened—regardless of how much time has passed—it...
about 5 hours ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Request for Enhancement to delete the email by Netcool EWS / GraphAPI Probe when running as Slave / Seconday

Netcool EWS / GraphAPI Probe when running as Slave / Seconday will not delete the Emails from Inbox post reading it. Only Master/Primary Probe is deleting the email. Request for Enhancement to delete the email by secondary probe when running as Sl...
about 13 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

On dashboard widgets created with a grouping, it would be useful to be able to deselect all categories rather than only being able to deselect 1 at a time.

On dashboard widgets created with a grouping, it would be useful to be able to deselect all categories rather than only being able to deselect 1 at a time. For widgets that only have 3 or 4 categories the current functionality works fine but if th...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
22 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted