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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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about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add PATCH Method for Adding/Removing Members to a Group

Today, if you want to modify a groups membership via our REST API, you need to use a PUT method which requires you to post all members of the group back to the system not just the ones that have changed. If you are modifying a group multiple times...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Make the POST Targets endpoint Non-Blocking when adding New Targets

When using the API to add targets in bulk, each call to add a target is blocking and requires validation to complete (success or fail) before returning a HTTP response. This is less than ideal since the script/process adding targets has to wait fo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 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...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Download & Export only top 50

Allows you to download all line items in the top list when selecting Download. Otherwise you need to keep on clicking on "View More" to see all of the line items. If you want to see 1000s then you need to click "View More" until you reach the end ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Team / Org Seperation needed from CloudAutomationManager to AnsibleTower

Customers are setting up a single CAM / Tower system and want to be able to separate the templates and what templates each team can see. Team A: access to tower templates in project ATeam B: access to tower templates in project B Today the teams...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Enable user impersonation in docker Zcentric agents for running the jobs under different application usernames.

For now, IWS have limitation on executing the jobs only under wauser in docker zCentric agents and per IBM documentation user impersonation is not feasible on docker agents. In a traditional TWS environment, user impersonation is possible. We are ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ansible Automation Scripts for Agent and TEPS Installation

Clients today use ITM as a base monitoring solutions for a variety of systems. In order to easily roll out ITM to additional systems, the ask is that ITM provide ansible automation scripts to assist with installation of server and agent components.
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Dedicated Juniper and Huawei telnet agents to collect and process OSPF data

Our customer have a need for specific Juniper and Huawei OSPF disco agents, because right now OSPF data for this vendors collected not fully (for example missing connections if OSPF protocol configured on a subinterface rather then on interface).
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration