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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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Ability to monitor the custom process and change the process name based on the different arguments

This feature request is to monitor the custom process end to end. Basically the running batch process on the server when we have requests to run different batch processes some on a particular schedule and some on an adhoc basis. So, when the batch...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Selection with multiple criteria on model and planning

On DWC we can select only one filter at the same time. For instance Jobstream starting by A but we cannot select Jobstream starting by A and on the workstation C and other filter
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Use the same Channel/Subscription model for apps running in VM-based infra too

MCM and the coming RH ACM are both container friendly solutions, which bring in a unified and simplified Channel/Subscription model to deploy and manage applications within managed Kubernetes clusters across cloud providers. But the vision of CP4M...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Planned for future release

restricting API source IP addresses

Anyone who knows API token can change Instana configuration with using Instana API. For security, I hope that Instana backend should be able to restrict API source IP addresses.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters.

Increase the file dependency length limitation which is currently as The combination of the path of the file and the qualifiers cannot exceed 145 characters, and the name of the file cannot exceed 28 characters. Due to the above limitation the fi...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Increase the max observation period for VM Default policy to 120 days rather than the current maximum of 90 days

It would be useful so that we can track more 1 quarter's worth of performance & capacity metrics data. We have application customers with VM's that run hot only once per quarter and would like to see their capacity and performance data coverin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

REST API only supports basic authentication

IWS REST API has basic authentication option only. which is not IBM security approved. Competitors like BMC COntrol-m provice REST APIs with more secure authentication like bearer authentication. the same must be provided on TWS's API.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to unschedule previously scheduled work in Maximo Scheduler.

In Maximo Scheduler, there is currently no ability to unschedule work that has already been scheduled. Can you please provide a way to do this? The reason this is so important to me, and my organization is that sometimes we have to deschedule work...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration