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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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Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Add support for Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi is one of the popular storage vendor widely used across enterprises and currently there is no target integration available.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Enhance List Widget to work with touch and mouse on devices with touchscreen

If a List Widget is loaded on any page of DASH, this List Widget will not show any Scrollbar, if opened on a browser on a device with touchscreen. So it is hard to use with mouse then. Other functionality as HTML-Links within SmartText Widget and ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Tabs to Export in Excel the Same as displayed in Apptio

When exporting a report from Apptio to Excel, it is requested that tabs in the report keep the same display name as displayed in Apptio, to streamline analysis for stakeholders. 
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Trace Duration as Filter for Analytics and dashboards

For monitoring asynchronous systems like batch jobs, messaging it would be great to be able to filter requests based on the duration. Currently it is only possible for latency. Every Trace has this information.
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Increase Device inventory report raw limit more than 1000.

We have to schedule the device inventory report but facing following challenges . 1. NMS device inventory report limited to export 1000 raw ( devices ). 2. Metadata report from DI doesnt have the default fields like Device Availability which is a ...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Remove 1,000 character limitation on the comment field of job stream objects

Prior to IWS v10.1, there was not a 1000 character limit. We often exceed this limit due to taking notes on each change to a stream. This is a business practice which we have used for over 10 years. Ever since the upgrade, we cannot add any more n...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Import AD and UI cert through UI

Today the customer's need to go through editing yaml files on the backend to be able to use secure ldap or importing a cert to to secure the Turbonomic UI or when using secure proxy when targeting cloud targets. All these scenarios need the custom...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Exclude unused objects from Cost modeled metric's Diagram view

As a TBMA, I would like to see only used/connected objects in the Diagram view of the Cost modeled metrics. Other views (eg Model Overview) of the metric already excluded unused/disconnected objects. Today, unused/disconnected objects appear in t...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration