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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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WebGUI runwaapi.sh Password Parameter uncrypted

runwaapi.sh from WEGGUI has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the process table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Functionality already exists

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Visualize network flow duration

The current raw flow data view allows users to see detailed flow data for a specified time span, but it does not provide information on when the flow started or its duration. When an issue occurs during a specific time span and the cause needs to ...
22 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Functionality already exists

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
5 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to add variance comments at the full year (FY) column in Variance Analysis or Compare Shortcuts

Add the capability to add comments when comparing an annual forecast plan to another annual forecast plan (actuals + forecast) and save the comments in a layout. Currently, there is no ability to add comments when using the compare shortcuts featu...
28 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Customizing Incident Titles: A user can edit a Incident title at anytime if required to better reflect the issue.

Functionality for user to be able against an Incident to modify the title as currently being based on the trigger alert this may not accurately represent the real Incident.
29 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Functionality already exists

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts (Latest feedback from https://automati...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

VMware CPU&Memory Limit value adjusting for optimization

Recently, Turbonomic supported to configure hot-add parameter on VMware VM configuration. Customer hope to do configuration also CPU&Memory Limit value by Turbononmic for optimization in the case Limit value configured on VMware VM (vCenter's ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Functionality already exists