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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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User attributes in validation rule

Hello,   We would like to set some characteristics at user profile level (via custom fields) to indicate those users have extra permissions to change some specific fields of an object. I didn’t find a way to access the user profile from withi...
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host they are running on.

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host which each VM is running on. One way to do this is to add the host name column on the "List of Virtual Machines" tab view. It would be nice i...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

GCP Stackdriver Events(Alerts) ingestion to IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps

As per IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps v4.3.0 documentation there is no support for GCP Stackdriver for Event(Alert) ingestion. Client is interested to know if such integration is possible, or on Cloud Pak for AIOps roadmap. References: https://cloud.goog...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add kubernetes pod emphemeral storage usage as metric

Hi all, When monitoring critical k8s deployments which have an ephemeral storage limit defined, it is essential to actively keep track on the current usage and get an alert once the limit is nearly reached. It might be possible to get these metric...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Agent for Kafka

It would be useful for our Company to be able to monitor Kafka leveraging the existing ITM infrastructure. As a second choice we would consider using the APM infrastructure
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Using OR & AND logic together between multiple resources columns based on patterns.

We are using NOI Event Analytics mainly for pattern grouping to minimize the number of alerts or minimize the Incidents/noise on Netcool Console. As per the design, Event analytics allows only OR or AND logic between multiple resource columns unde...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

About number of schema items constraints

Hello. I heard that IT Planning's number of schema must be under 60.Actually our company IT Planning's Asset Line Item have 58 items.We would like to use more items if it is possible.Is it possible to increase number of schema items from 60 to mor...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps

Azure ARO Native Storage Support for CP4Watson AIOps
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improved scoping on Host Unavailability Detection

As a user wanting to detect host unexpectedly going offline, I want to be able to filter the scope of this detector based on attributes beyond just host tags (e.g., to exclude a few of the worker pools from alerting using DFQ such as "entity.selfT...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

UI configuration option for case-insensitive username with LDAP

Currently, IBM Cloud Private only accepts case-sensitive usernames from LDAP. This is atypical and confusing for users as a result, especially if they're not even aware of how their username appears in the database. It can currently be configured ...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration