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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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Being able to see OS patches needed

Would be nice to see the OS patches needed for VMs
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

New Collector for Discovering FiberHome MSAN devices

The customer has a set of MSAN’s that are from FiberHome OEM. The OEM supports TL1 as NBI for collecting inventory data. Since ITNM doesn’t have a generic TL1 collector, we will need a new collector developed. The following are the TL1 comman...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Allow automatic WPA-enablement (based on some default policy settings) for newly discovered clusters/vms

As a sequel to https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-321, it would provide great benefit to customers to have automatic (default) WPA settings for newly discovered clusters/VMs.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Extend Turbonomic Target Support for FlashBlade Storage

Veterans Affairs Financial Services Center is moving towards a hardware refresh that included FlashBlade Storage. Pure FlashBlade Storage allows capacity and performance to be scaled independently and can be continuously improved over time. VA FSC...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Not under consideration

Service Designer to add example json payload while designing service in CAM Service Composer.

This requirement is being asked by Citi customer , where in they want to view the example json while ordering services from MCMP. To enable this the Service designer must be provided an option to add an example json for ordering while composing th...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

[OAPI] Split the resource grouping for operator easy access

IBM support Case # TS006039944
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

AWS Private Link required

We have not rolled out Instana to even half of the required systems in the bank and our egres costs are escalating very quickly and we would be able to manage it with the introduction of AWS Private Link from Capitec to Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Request a read-only role in Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, without delete/create permissions

We would like to request the addition of a read-only role (without delete/create permission) in IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact that only allows viewing of maintenance windows, regardless of which user created them, but nothing else
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

twsinst efficiency improvements

Ref: TS011706916 We've noted when upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5, and also when applying fixpacks to 9.5, that twsinst is performing "copy" operations on all the files in the stdlist directory instead of "move" operations. This has led to two issues du...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration