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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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Allow more flexibility in Instana-agent HelmChart

Hi IBM-Instana team, We use the instana-agent to monitor our services which are running in an air-gapped environment. We have a fully automated pipeline for mirroring images and HelmChart and for wrapping the HelmChart with our custom configuratio...
5 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Allow limiting access to Data Insight OOTB reports.

In multi-tenant deployments, the ability to limit what reports a user/tenant is presented with is key to being able to simplify the user experiance and reduce the effort for limited users or tenants to see only what they need. Allowing them to qui...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Under review

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
2 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Under review

More options to setup conditions for triggering policies

We have a few automations in place and in development which must be triggered by specific actions on AIOps, which are currently not supported by the application. Right now, we need to trigger the policy for each and every alert update, and then ch...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Expand supported limit of concurrent users in the UI

We have a large operation currently relying on Netcool's WebGUI. It is a large telecom company with a network of continental proportions. The operations and other teams that frequently accesses the UI to view alarms are currently around 100 concur...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add API Key as an authentication type for ServiceNow

ServiceNow authentications currenlty support local account username/password or SAML/OAUTHI'd like to see support for API KEY under the username/password authentication similar to the one for SevOne. https://www.servicenow.com/docs/bundle/xanadu-p...
4 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Javascript map files should not be downloaded repeatedly

The Website monitoring supports minified javascript through parsing of mapping files. However these mapping files are not cached by Instana so they are downloaded repeatedly. For big applications this means millions of downloads of files which are...
4 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
about 1 month ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

A status page for Turbonomic SaaS

Why is it useful? A dedicated SaaS status page for Turbonomic provides transparency to customers by delivering real-time updates on system performance, service availability, and ongoing incidents. This fosters trust and enhances the customer exper...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review