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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?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Perform a search based on actual model.

To have the ability to search based on the actual model.I can now search on VTMOS but that shows not always the required result.
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Built-in Event: Abnormal termination correlation event with deployment markers

Kubernetes is gracefully terminating the resources. In new releases, our resources will be replaced with new ones. Kubernetes sends SIGTERM signal to pods.This signal lets the containers know they will be shut down soon. This behaviour causes lots...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

We are looking for an Instana Sensor to get resource and tracing metrics from MarkLogic DBs

This would be useful in complemting our services which call the ML databases.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Cloud scaling actions in AWS should also include instance-level network performance metrics to assure performance after being executed

The following link (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/amazon-ec2-instance-level-network-performance-metrics-uncover-new-insights/) was provided by our cloud ops team when discussions were held regarding the validity of T...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Functionality to send email notifications when maintenance window is setup

Need to have the Functionality to send email notifications when a maintenance window is setup, goes active and when maintenance window ends. The email should contain who setup the maintenance window, window start time/end time, all CI's in mainten...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

nco_config should not close an edit window upon hitting ESC

When editing a trigger or a procedure in nco_config, hitting ESC closes the window without any warning.If you are used to vi, then hitting ESC just happens - and all your work is gone.At least a warning box should appear, or ESC should be suppress...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under 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 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 7 Future consideration

IWS auditing for Login events (DWC, conman, composer) and changes to configuration and security files

See attached
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Jobstream description in DWC

Hi It will nice to add description of Jobstream into the planning of DWC for IWS distributed. This is a funtion we have in IWS for z/OS
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release