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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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Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.

TS014338255: NodeJS App: Stacktrace: Queries are getting trimmed at random. Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

TLS connections to scrape Prometheus endpoints

Allow TLS connections for connections from Instana agents/sensors instances to scrape target prometheus endpoints
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Future consideration

Custom dashboard for application perspective grouping custom prometheus metrics

Up to v257 on-prem it is not possible to create custom dashoard widget panel under an application perspective for (prometheus) custom metrics (only standard metrics like calls, latency or errorneous).We want to to create custom dashboards over cus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Scraping of Prometheus endpoint metrics from C-Components

Affects Instana sensor and UI-backendAs a customer having to monitor custom metrics in a complex platform with heterogenous stack we need to monitor prometheus endpoint custom metrics provided be C-components, too.Please consider scraping Promethe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Support IPv6

Provide IPv6 into ICAM: for hosting ICAM for managing workloads through ICAM, typically VMs which are using IPv6 or a mixture of IPv6 and IPv4
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

TADDM scan support for cygwin 3.4.9

As we tested, for now TADDM is supporting scan of hosts with cygwin only to version 3.0.7. But there is a security issue with this version, and the customer's administrator needs to use cygwin newer versions, for example 3.4.7 or 3.4.9. I think th...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Report with the utilization graphs for a group of VMs

I’d like the ability to have Turbo generate a report with the usage graphs for a group of VMs. I must get App Owner signoff for server RightSizing, and this data is demanded frequently to justify Turbo’s recommendations. I’d like to be able to spe...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 7 Future consideration

Add schedule to Trap Event Editor

Hi team, regarding the Trap Event Editor that generates an alarm message when a specific trap is received, we would like to avoid the creation of this alarm message under a schedule given (in the same way that Policy Alerts do it). In that way, we...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Filter Kubernetes namespaces

In some cases, customers want to install IBM Instana host agent on K8s workers nodes from K8s cluster managed by third party and used by several clients (shared resources). If worker nodes are dedicated for a customer, it could be great to be able...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration