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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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Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

MySQL 8.0.29 version support for Turbonomic

Turbonomic deployment at Infosys is not progressing due to no visibility on support for latest version of MySQL, while the supported MySQL version is having its EOL in 6 months. Customer is very upset with the lack of DB choice beyond MySQL and Ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Delivered

When working with multiple DWC on multiple environments we need to distinct the browser windows

Customer have multiple instances of IWS 9.5 in distinct environments, and use distinct DWC to reach each one. This is being problematic because Browser always have the same layout, color and title, and the final user/operator may, by mistake, do a...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Delivered

REST API expose for Impact Policies

Need a supported and structured method to expose as endpoints for the impact polices to be called as REST api with documented Jason Payload Specifically for the MWM policies.As of today the policy can be executed with REST which is not documented ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

DWC Login page modification for 9.5

This feature was available in all the previous version of TWS. And this idea will benefit all the organization who wants to customize their DWC login page according to their requirements.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 8 Delivered

Support to Monitor Oracle RAC

Hi, Instana currently doesn't support monitoring Oracle RAC Instances either by Remote or Local configuration. Many cutsomers are having Oracle RAC Production Instances. Also Oracle monitoring is limited to configure OracleSID. Need to extend to s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 10 Delivered

Need support for Azure ebdsv5 and ebsv5 series

Turbonomic currently does not support Azure ebdsv5 and ebsv5 series. Customer is starting to request and use these as well as purchase RI's related to them. Here is Azure link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/ebdsv5-ebsv5-s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Support for Custom VMs

GCP have a great feature that enable customers to change instance size for different types than regular family published size. This is considered as a custom VMs and can be used for IaaS and GKE clusters. Turbonomic still don't support this type, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Delivered

Quantify Risk Across the Components (Clusters, VMs, Apps)

Today clients or service providers are not able to quantify the risk across the components of their enterprise due to the following challenges: Compliance is a complex process covering many security processes including but not limited to Patching,...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered