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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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New device support for ITNM Collector for Ericsson ENM EMS as tracked in case TS017711078

5G Core devices like UPF/SMF/AMF/NSSF/NRF are currently not recognized by the ITNM Collector for Ericsson ENM and thus doesn't have the support to process Discovery for these device types. Please confer with kmkodali@us.ibm.com.
4 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

When creating a network merge policy there should be a second field to display the data center name

When creating a network merge policy there should be a second field to display the data center name in the case that the same network name exists in two different data centers. Under the current design, if the same network exists in two different ...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Make Stack and Up-/Downstream information visible for AWS ActiveMQ Server

Fill Instana Active MQ Monitoring Dashboard Button 'Stack' and 'Upstream/Downstream' Buttons
17 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

AWS Lambda Serverless optimisation

This idea will be beneficial for all the customers running AWS serverless based applications. Serverless functions optimization is very often required and uctually uncovered from Turbonomic. It depends by a a combination of memory allocation and e...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic administrator needs to know who's created / edited groups & policies.

It's an auditing requirement from internal Infosec teams. It would be used to validate changes made from internal teams or department leads to ensure valid change control processes were maintained.
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
26 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 15 Planned for future release

Supported observer for ingesting Forward Networks topology

We have several customers asking for the ability to leverage Forward Networks topology data in Cloud Pak for AIOps. Forward Networks is their main source of truth used for network discovery and network management, and we should be able to incorpor...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Enhanced Role-Base Access Control: Additive permissions resulting from multiple external group memberships

If a user is a member of multiple external groups, Turbonomic authenticates the user through the first group that was returned during the SSO or AD authentication. This requires that the use of disjoint SSO or AD Groups for Turbonomic authenticati...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Planned for future release

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Planned for future release