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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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Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Ability to change policies on Databricks clusters: autoscale;autopause

Some users do not enable autopause and autoscale in their databricks environments. Although it is very hard to use Turbo's capabilities to resize databricks VMs as they spin up and down so often, it would be very helpful to change cluster policies...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Need Message Bus probe using webhook to authenticate client

Currently we have probe connecting to an endpoint as a secure client. But here, we want enable/start messagebus probe as server enabling secure webhook endpoint for clients to connect and post the JSON formatted data on the webhook endpoint.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Qualify TSAMP 4.1.04 on Centos 7.4 and Later

Referencing Salesforce Case - TS001479603 We would like to have TSAMP qualified for Centos 7.4 and later. Based on DB2 AESE Compatibility Report - https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity-reports/report/html/softwareReqsForProduc...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the Workload Widget to show where new workloads are coming from to properly estimate and manage Turbo licenses.

There is a widget called Workload Improvement – and it has 3 types, On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid. I think it would be VERY useful if we add various parameters to this graph (focusing mostly on cloud) 1)Provider (aws, gcp, azure0 2) Subscription (Acco...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Improve readability of Component Comparison results

Configuration Comparison is essential capability of the TADDM product. However, the result that is generated when using this functionality is usually full of 'Last Stored Time' results - these occur for every comparable component because they are ...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

API request url needs updating

In meeting with a customer recently to troubleshoot API issues he said he was having, we noticed something in Swagger that was failing. We realized that in the request URL, it had an old url string that needs to be updated. It lists /vmturbo/ wher...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Not under consideration

Synthetics Tests granularity below 1 minute

As a customer, I want to ensure that my endpoints are available using Synthetics. Also, as a customer, I would like to have several measurements per minute to exclude temporary connectivity problems. A workaround would be to set up multiple tests ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to a fully encrypted Sybase database

Provide ENCRYPT_PASSWORD option to allow connections to fully encrypted Sybase databases.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration