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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 constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

All tables should have resizable colums

All UI tables should be able to resize its colums in order to see more information. Example: there are some tables that show incomplete urls and other columns that only show a number, but all columns have the same size and cannot be resized to see...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
4 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
5 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Product Feature Proposal: GCP DBaaS Support

Objective: Enhance IBM Turbonomic's capabilities to include automated optimization for GCP's PaaS database services, such as Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore. Rationale: Diverse PaaS Database Offerings ...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Submitted

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
14 days ago in Instana / Go 0 Submitted

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 0 Under review

Probable Cause UI

Starting from version 4.7, the incident view was redesigned from a left-side panel to horizontal tabs starting from version 4.7. In the current layout (see screenshot), when multiple alerts have similar titles, users need to hover over the tab and...
43 minutes ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Deprecation field for ART and ST

It is really weird that TargetProcess has depricated / Active/Inactive flag available for Portfolios and Teams however this is not available for Agile Release Train and Solution Train.As a large organization these keeps changing for us, wishing th...
about 8 hours ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Submitted