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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?
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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OpenResty Alpine Module Build for Nginx tracing 1.19.9

Customer is trying to monitor kong.They currently use image based on an alpine image: https://hub.docker.com/layers/kong/library/kong/2.5.1-alpine/images/sha256-6896f87b90dcea49ee7009a9963a709e5644ebf0dff8491d2c010bf7fab6a974?context=exploreThey w...
almost 2 years ago in Instana 0 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 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Extend IWS REST to contain more basic modificaton operations

Please add rest methods for IWS 9.5 to be able easily to do: Add a job into an existing jobstream – that should be a method with few parametersRemove a job from an existing jobstream - that should be a method with few parametersAdd a dependency in...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS/IWA Filewatch JOBStream improvment

The client is using the Filewatch capabilities to manage input files coming from external partners/clients. During a normal day they need to manage the following situations: - No file received - a single file received - Multiple file received They...
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Support of Springboot newer versions (from 2.7.0)

Hello, We recently updated our springboot framework to 2.7.0 and found out that we lost a certain amount of spans and custom tags after this upgrade. Can you plan to support at least this version of springboot shortly ? Kind Regards, Quentin
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Is a defect

Allow or block access to subscriptions/projects in turbonomic

Turbonomic should have capability to block/allow access to subscriptions or projects even though the owner of the subscription provides access to the service principal. As the target is set to Azure/GCP, we should have some granularity to allow/bl...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Future consideration

Improve reliability of sending data to Instana

We have been observing regular connection failures (about 100 within a week for about a dozen services), when the Node agent was attempting to send data to the Instana servers. The error message was often related to timeouts: Error received while ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Node 2 Future consideration

Per job E2E accounting from mainframe should be possible without DB2

To support and offer better solutions to our customers we would like to use the "per job accounting" from the mainframe without having the DB2 history database installed. Some of our mainframe customers have several servers installed and could be ...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Ability to customize & create banners in IWO

A tiny customizable banner at the top of the page would allow us to inform users when we have planned actions. It would also allow us to provide helpful information, such as if there is a temporary outage or data is missing, etc.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Nokia Altiplano Access Manager integration with ITNM

Globe has chosen Nokia Altiplano Access Controller as the domain controller to provide unified access management and integrated network automation across a multi-vendor, multi-technology environment. As updated in the support case (TS004530971), I...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 5 Future consideration