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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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Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Generate documentation from system note fields

In TBM Studio we can create in-product documentation writing notes on:- Tables in the Table description- Columns in the Description of the Import step as well as in the Formulas step- Allocations in the Notes section- Metrics in the Description fi...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

I want the SNMP Working Yes/No filter to be real-time - not based on the last successful discovery

When I set the SNMP Yes / Working No filter, I expect the result to be accurate - not based on the result of the last successful discovery. I should not have to manually check the results of the filter to see if they accurate.
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

As a user I would like to push Kafka topics to multiple brokers/consumers, so that I can use built-in SaaS reporting as well as provide the data for internal BI teams

Please see attached for details for consideration. It would provide great benefit to be able to utilize kafka connectors to asynchronously push data to other consumers rather than the current 1:1 producer:consumer to data explorer today.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.in organizations where security is paramount (which is the majority of companies now) it is a security threat to have Service Accounts where i...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Future consideration

Allow resizing of a VM when the VM is not running

Scale actions to resize or change the instance type of a VM in Azure do not function on a VM that is stopped/deallocated. Many of our VMs are scheduled to be stopped outside of normal business hours. We also have a schedule policy to have "execute...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Consistent Resizing for Storage

Extend the concept of consistent sizing for grouped servers to storage on the grouped servers. For instance, if i have servers in a cluster or servers that have been grouped together via tagging and rule, if there is a recommendation for storage, ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Future consideration