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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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control rerun frequency interpretation

Currently when a rerun frequency is defined on a job in a job stream that frequency is interpreted differently depending on whether there is a job level earliest start time on the job. Without the earliest start time the rerun frequency is interpr...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Improving Resiliency #1: re-attaching "running OS processes" in secondary node after a failover

Whenever a failover happens, we need the Agents to be capable of re-attaching the running OS processes (attached to each individual SAP Jobs) when its services are restarted/failed-over from Site A to Site B.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

ITNCM worker failed to reconnect to DB

We would like a new timeout on the worker database connection so that the worker reconnects to the DB if the connection drops.
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add possibility to define hidden/password fields for Runbooks

In NOI the Runbook component allows to define parameters in order to customize Runbooks and Automations. It is necessary for some of these parameters to represent passwords, so the confidential information is not disclosed accidentally. Currently ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

OMNIbus EventViewer grouping size and user preference retention

On WebGUI Event Viewer when events are grouped, the grouping box takes up about 20% of the screen and whilst it can be shrunk down, this is not remembered for each GUI user or capable of being set via a setting in preferences.ie. an option to reme...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Providing a Dashboard to List Release Markers across environments/tenants

Today, we have a Release marker feature to let us know when the release was made. As we started using this feature, it could be enhanced by allowing us to create dashboards to understand the release flows from one environment to another and get a ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

data retention be extended for beyond 365 days for active as well as ceased devices

For some customers it is essential to have the historic data for more than 12 months. Hence need to have feasibility to extent the retention period beyond 365 days. Also same retention should be available for the devices which are not currently be...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under consideration

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration