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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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Excluding specific services from Application Perspective Scope

It is not possible to exclude some of the downstream calls(for ex:excluding only DB calls) from definition. Filtering feature does not support the necessity above, so we cannot define exact perspective.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboard queries shows misleading retention information in case of approximation

We have example in custom dashboard were some panels with complex queries show approximation because of retention where the real reason is query time-out. Although we believe this is a flaw we were asked to raise feature request. So please conside...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 6 Future consideration

Provide switch on Event Viewer to make that instance read-only

Currently a Page loads a map in top half and EV in bottom.Icons on map do one of 3 things1)Update the EV on bottom.2)Open EV in new window3)Open LEL (or replacement) in new window. This is the RO view of "other"alarms Requirement : It Is Item 3 - ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator (SLOv1)

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Idea: The password should not be mandatory for user creation if login is possible only with SSO

On our productive instance (https://cariad.tpondemand.com/), users can login only using the Single Sign On functionality. That means that they do not use the Login Name and Password to get access to Targetprocess since they are authenticated ...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Future consideration

Add role level security/cost object permissions to Event Log/Change History in ITP

As an End User, I'd like to check, what changes have been made to my cost center/cost object.  The Event log in ITP would be perfect for this.  However, since the cost object permissions due not apply in the event log, this is problemati...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Watson AIOPS / Netcool® Operations Insight - Event Manager Operator to support manual PVC provisioning

Currently the Event Manager operator(https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.7?topic=about) requires specific storage classes to be selected when installing the Operator with the persistence option enabled.This approach requires to have a storage clas...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Saving NCO_PA configuration file via CLI utility

We can customize (add processes and services) of Process Agent settings via CLI nco_pa_addentry utility, but all new implemented settings can not be saved by any CLI tool.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Kubernetes Migrate Workload plan improvements: Cost

Turbonomic planning on kubernetes allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size no...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration

Within Turbo I should not only be able to see potential savings but the current cost of a business application

whilst turbo shows the potential savings of each change it also shows the current costs, however when looking at a wider scope like the business application this information is lost, ideally within the business application overview or details page...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration