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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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Locate Dependency Loops in DWC(Show Plan View)

This makes Dependency Loops graphically visible in the Show Plan View option
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Multiple Labor Allocation Rule Reference Data Versions

The ability to save different versions of Labor Allocation Rules to be used for current year Forecast and next year Budget.  The facilities loadings, vacancy rates, bonus %, insurance costs, etc vary from year-to-year.  We currently must...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Plan improvements: Downloading all plan results

Turbonomic planning allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size node would be be...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

When a script is part of a resize policy the vCPU & vMEM actions are executed together.

Execution of pending actions are completed immediately instead of backing off or executing separately extending the change window. Fewer number of reboots to complete pending actions including vMEM, vCPU, socket matching compliance. Script complet...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Instana to support Vercel

Vercel is actually the easiest, most powerful and easy-to-use platform that can help developers build and deploy high-quality web applications quickly and efficiently. It offers a variety of features such as continuous integration and deployment (...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Allow Turbonomic be aware of edge cases and scale virtual machines to instance types that are available in the AZ

Generally, all the instance types are available within the entire region which we take into consideration but in some edge cases AWS does not make them available in a particular AZ within that region. We do not track availability within a particul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Enhance options to resize columns in reports

Problem:   We currently have to manually resize the months columns when using any time element in a report (Months, Year to Date, etc.).  Even worse we need to do this for the same month column, but for a different year.  I bel...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Add last day of month as variable like {DD}

I want the ability to run a datalink connector on the first of the month to retrieve data from the previous month, with the added capability to have {DD} variable specified as the last day of the last month. For example in a REST connector connect...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration