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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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Provide a "performance per watt" metric for environments

The idea of a "performance per watt" metric for hardware environments - particularly x86 platform - would be a good way of distinguishing between server types at a fundamental sustainability level. I suspect the metrics needed for this are already...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 2 Future consideration

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Column "Created Date" to be Exportable with Layout

Allow a use to export that Created Date column (that is currently not allowed to be exported) plus normal expense-related fields and add the cautionary ‘pop-up’ commentary (not allow them to re-import the specified date fields); then allow them to...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

OMNIbis Probe for NNMi support of latest versions

The latest available version of Probe for NNMi (nco_p_hp_nnm) is 4.0, which supports NNMi 2019.11 as the latest version. The NNMi 2019.11 is very old and not supported on the RHEL 8.x. On the RHEL 8.x are supported following NNMi versions: 2020.0...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add group filter "Cloud Tier" for Database Servers entities

If you want to create a group with all databases with version db.r6g as example, you can't use the cloud tier as a filter. Customers can't limit the resize to his own family, since Turbonomic is not RI RDS aware.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Name individual spring boot applications when sanitizing sensitive values

We have a customer with a lot of springboot applications and due to their sanitizing policy, we cannot see the application names in Instana and they show up as "*****", there are 3 solutions for this according to springboots own documentation: htt...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Auto Failover for TNC-A components

Currently there is no failover mechanism in any of the components in TNC-A. If any issue happens within any component like impact/probes/objectserver it needs to be handled manually. We are monitoring all these components health manually and takin...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Variable handling - configurable per tab or global

Variable handling in DI is very limiting having variables that apply to all tabs in a report. Not only is it restrictive but can also be confusing with different variable types and data it applies to (especially with flow). It should be possible t...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Remove Android Character Limit

I would like to request that the android-agent in the CustomEvent file be updated to remove the 1024-character limit on logs. This is because the current limit is causing logs to be truncated from Android devices, whereas they are not from iOS dev...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Pivot Compatibility with 3 modeled metrics stacked bar charting

In Apptio Cost Transparency reporting, when creating a stacked bar chart, we can configure three modeled metrics to stack on top of each other by placing a dimension in the "Columns" section and the modeled metrics in the "Values" section of the c...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration