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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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Add tag to modified RDS resource when action is executed

DFS is using RDS managed by OCP operator. In order to sync with operator configuration after turbo made RDS instance modification DFS would like Turbo to add a Tag to modified RDS DB, that would say ”Turbo modified - current configuration is ‘inst...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to have a "No Action" Compliance rule terminator

We want to be able to check if a device has a feature and then confirm it is configured correctly. If it does not have the feature, the compliance policy should not fail. There should be a rule "No Action" terminator for the compliance fule.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

IM: Support custom buttons on VMs and Templates page

Currently custom buttons for VMs are only available on the Compute ->Infrastructure ->Virtual Machines -> VMs This is not very intuitive as the view for virtual machines defaults to: Compute -> Infrastructure -> Virtual Machines -&g...
11 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

Current row highlighted / visually formatted when editing in ITP

As ITP Users, we’d like the current row being edited/worked on to be highlighted (bolded or visually formatted) so that we can easily distinguish the row when working on one side of the row to the other. This will make updating rows easier when th...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Integrated with the Cisco EOS Portal

Compliance and reporting to be integrated with Cisco EOS Portal so that we are informed of devices / ios are unsupported by Cisco
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Implement SCIM

Although Instana implements some SSO, it doesnt cover the full user lifecycle. We would like to see SCIM implemented so that users who fall out of scope of the SAML (in our case) application are also deleted in Instana. At the moment its a semi ma...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Being able to process v3 SNMP traps by auto discovering EngineID

Currently the SNMP (mttrapd) Probe only supports configuring the Engine ID's first, before being able to receive the SNMPv3 Traps. Probe should work in following fashion , this will take out of manual work to monitor traps from 100s thousands devi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Correlate events with a change (recorded in SNOW, Remedy) OOTB

US FSM customers are requesting the ability to ingest change data and correlate events in Netcool / CP4WAIOps to that change. There are a variety of ways to represent this in our tools, but BofA / Morgan Stanley in particular are looking for a sta...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration