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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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Node state shows as “Active” in Turbonomic Console even when a Node is marked as “unschedulable” in OpenShift

When draining a NODE OpenShift Kubernetes, and un-schedulable in OpenShift, Turbonomic console shows the node as "Active". There is no way to know if a NODE is un-schedulable or cordoned. Similar to VCenter where a Host is in maintenance mode it s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Functionality already exists

POD Placement: Error Details insufficient for "Failed to start action... due to error"

Failed POD moves do not say why the Failed to start action ended in an error and what that error is. A long number is shown with in not informative. Can you link the number to a meaning and present that in the error output?
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Is a defect

add AWS resource ID to report column options

I am trying to correlate the scaling recommendations in turbonomics to an AWS cost report, and I can't find a good field to join on (the aws report doesn't have instance name). if the turbonomic report had the instanceID, that would do it for me
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to aggregate the async latency number collected from traces

We would like to be able to aggregate the async latency number that already exists in the UI for traces. Ideally we would want to create alerts on outlying numbers. This would be very useful to understand whether full user journeys have degraded i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Support AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Are there any efforts to use the AWS Lambda Telemetry API ? Many of the competitors already support this feature. Why not Instana ? Couldn't this lead a way to autotracing Lambda ?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Optimize handling of unconnected Dynamic agents

When Dynamic Agents are not connected anymore (for whatever reason) they will generate a "message-bomb" causing the WAS to get overloaded and get stuck. I've already reported this issue in case TS003762963 (which was closed with a reference to how...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add information on the Job status change event to distinguish between ABENDs of jobs that are automatically recovered and the ones that require a manual intervention.

To achieve Service cafe integration with IWA and automate the ticket creation process which we are currently doing manually. We have certain use cases that needs to differentiate the job abend scenarios and create the tickets accordingly.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Placeholder support for ComputerSystems not fully discovered

Option to set the isPlaceholder attribute to True for ComputerSystems that have not been fully discovered to provide a easy way to decide whether the discovered data can be considered complete or not
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists