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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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Enable functionality to ITNM Network Views to add annotations to maps

ability to add annotations to Network View maps
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Allow customization of name for traceId value in Java MDC

Instana automatically populates the MDC with the trace ID. The MDC variable name is instana.trace.id. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-java-virtual-machine#logging-mdc-populated-with-the-t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud)

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud) to be able to send only actions for certain groups of VMs and Volumes that are for performance to ServiceNow during a certain time frame and other actions that are...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

When viewing a VM / Pod the user should have access to a terminal for access / running commands

When scoping to a VM / Pod we show actions that can be performed on the entities. However, some customers would also like to do some sort of independent debugging. If we have a terminal in the UI we can allow for the user to stay within Turbonomic...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Cloud Automation Manager: Pre-destroy plan output and confirmation so the user can see what will be deleted before it happens

CMSIBM-264 Pre-destroy plan output and confirmationAs an iCAM user, I would like to see a list of resources that will be destroyed when asked to confirm whether or not I want to destroy an instance. Acceptance Criteria:- iCAM UI displays pre-destr...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Check the supplied hostname format before starting the install process.

When standing up a new Turbo VM from the OVA there is an option to run the ./t8c.sh script and pass a -h modifier followed by the desired host name of the VM - so it is not named the default node1. If a hostname is supplied with an improper format...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Display of IDAA boxes in TADDM

Currently, TADDM doesn't discover the IDAA boxes in our environment.
about 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 3 Not under consideration

Scrolling API support for Message Bus probe

The only method available in MCP R4.0 to handle an alarm query which returns results greater than 10,000 records is to utilise the scrolling capability.The current version (10) of the Message Bus supports pagination - however there is a restrictio...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Not under consideration

Display VMware hierarchy in Data Management Tool

Our users want to explore from Virtual Machine to ESX host and/or VMware cluster to VMwar Data Center to Virtual Center managing environment. Currently there is no link from ESX server to clusters or to Virtual Center.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration