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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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Being able to see OS patches needed

Would be nice to see the OS patches needed for VMs
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Allow automatic WPA-enablement (based on some default policy settings) for newly discovered clusters/vms

As a sequel to https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-321, it would provide great benefit to customers to have automatic (default) WPA settings for newly discovered clusters/VMs.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Extend Turbonomic Target Support for FlashBlade Storage

Veterans Affairs Financial Services Center is moving towards a hardware refresh that included FlashBlade Storage. Pure FlashBlade Storage allows capacity and performance to be scaled independently and can be continuously improved over time. VA FSC...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Not under consideration

Normalize Manufacturer and Model fields CDM

Normalize the Manufacturer and Model fields in the TADDM DB, so we can use the values to find enhanced information on the product.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

AWS Private Link required

We have not rolled out Instana to even half of the required systems in the bank and our egres costs are escalating very quickly and we would be able to manage it with the introduction of AWS Private Link from Capitec to Instana.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

DWC 9.4 - Critical jobs progress bar with date and time filters

DWC 9.4 - Would like the ability to display a progress bar for jobs in the critical path and be able to set parameters for input arrival date.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Create Driver for Cisco Wireless Link Controllers 5508

Please create managed SmartModels for:Vendor: CiscoType: Wireless Lan ControllerModel: 5508OS: 7.2.111.3 and 7.4.110.0
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

twsinst efficiency improvements

Ref: TS011706916 We've noted when upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5, and also when applying fixpacks to 9.5, that twsinst is performing "copy" operations on all the files in the stdlist directory instead of "move" operations. This has led to two issues du...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Control Flow Guard (CFG) not enabled.

As per Application security recommendation , It is recommended resolve below mentioned appsec in SCAPM application: Please find below details for appsec in SCAPM. Vulnerability Description in Detail:It was observed that the thick client applicatio...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration