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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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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Find a way to store historical vm data after cross-vcenter vmotion

Application and capacity teams would like to have important historical information, which get lost on cross vcenter vmotions. This is a hurdle to really adopting superclustering throughout our environment.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Watson AIOPS / Netcool® Operations Insight - Event Manager Operator to support manual PVC provisioning

Currently the Event Manager operator(https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.7?topic=about) requires specific storage classes to be selected when installing the Operator with the persistence option enabled.This approach requires to have a storage clas...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improvement of the Deployment of CA signed certificate for cp4mcm product

Openshit Version : 4.2 Cloudpak-MCM version : 1.2.0 Enterprise Hosting Cloud : AWS Background: During CP4MCM installation , installer expects the certificate (BYOC) to be located inside cfc-component directory which works perfectly fine. Feature e...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Planned for future release

Request to be able to get a list of all currently active users in WebGUI from CLI

From CLI to be able to generate a list of all the active users currently in WebGUI. A list of all currently active users would be added to a log when run or when scheduled. Allowing the Admins to see and log who was online and when.
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

When DataType detects a DB Type change should show a sign e.g. an exclamation point to indicate the required D.T. refresh

When DataType detects a DB Type change and updates the data in DataType (for instance from Oracle NUM16 to NUMBER) and data in the DataType changed from Integer to Float, it should show an exclamation point to indicate that DataType has detected D...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Custom time period at top of page to apply to all widgets on page

I’d like the ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page (Dashboards, regular VM/Group pages, etc) so it propagates to all the widgets/graphs – similar to how the limited selections do now. When using Turbo to evaluate utilization or r...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Allow filtration by entity type in Group Management page

We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best especially when there are so many to filter from and having all engineers keep track of all sorts of naming conventions is not simp...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Functionality already exists

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies. We selected the 'review first' option for temporal grouping and all temporal policies are now visible in the Suggested tab. But ideally all policie...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To support HP-UX for installing agent with Unix

We wish to newly install an agent to a server whose OS is hp-ux. Currently, however, only Solaris and AIX can be chosen when we select "Unix" on the screen of "Installing Instana Agent". If you could support hp-ux as well, it'd be great for us and...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

changePassword required for IWS 9.5

In earlier version of IWS/TWS the product supplied a changePassword.sh script that could be used to change the password of the users and made all of the necessary changes to WebSphere etc. In 9.5 it seems a step backwards that this now has to be p...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release