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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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Circular Dependency View

Currently TWS workload designer checks for circular dependencies within a job stream. However, it cannot detect circular dependencies that involve external jobs. Requirement is for capability to detect circular dependencies in external dependencie...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Run Cycle - create "ByDay" yearly run cycle

We would like IWS have the ability to create yearly run cycles "BYDAY". An example is to run the 2nd Sunday of January every year. Similar to Monthly run cycle "FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2SU" This would remove calendar updates from our applica...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Nightly Plans Cluster Resize (By Host)

A customer is looking for additional information to be made available from our Nightly Plans run. They would like to include a Cluster RightSize calculation or, be provided with the number of hosts can be suspended. They calculate on a daily basis...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Verify via API when the Nightly Plans Are Completed

Some customers run overnight processes to evaluate capacity and availability data from Turbo to be integrated into other internal systems. These programs need to run only after our Nightly Plans process has finished up. They have requested a simpl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Would like Instana to support the writing of the agent logs to the syslog system - See support request 30210

We have both aix and linux agents. We had both agents successfully writing to our syslog for quite some time (> 9 months). Recently (perhaps 6 weeks ago), after we upgraded our agents, the aix agent no longer writes to the syslog. The linux age...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

Single pane to view all restarted containers and pods for a deployment

At present there is no single view to see the graphs related to contianers those are created after restart of pods in a deployment. As these all containers belong to same deployment they should show restart-event and continuous graph related to co...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Not under consideration

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated

Our customer have a need for a smaller window, over which input raw poll data is aggregated for a single data point in the aggregate table for the month.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Instana on Openshift to use default ingress certificate

Hi, We install instana on openshift on my customer environment, customer wants that instana to use default ingress certificate for itself and not give tls.key and tls.crt files again on instana installation on openshift container platform.Because ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Mouse over on link or device icon in ncp_gis [NetKitMapWidget.jsp] shows fixed data. Add Custom Fields

the columns in the event or topology list are fixed. All that can be altered is whether or not the current columns are displayed, you can't alter the filter to display other columns. So we need some facilitation or enabled to add user specific fields
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

Openshift GPU Monitoring

In instana APM tool there is no information about gpus working on redhat openshift. It will be very useful to monitor gpu metrics, info and utilization data for openshift clusters connected to instana.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration