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When viewing a VM / Pod the user should have access to a terminal for access / running commands

When scoping to a VM / Pod we show actions that can be performed on the entities. However, some customers would also like to do some sort of independent debugging. If we have a terminal in the UI we can allow for the user to stay within Turbonomic...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Ability to assign/set in-progress/close multiple CEM incidents in one go

To have the ability in CEM to select multiple incidents and to assign them all to a team and/or an individual all in one go. And then to also obviously have the same functionality for all other actions on a CEM incident like setting "In-progress",...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Device driver for Checkpoint gateway, Model 4800

We are requesting driver support for the Checkpoint gateway, Model 4800 because current driver package does not support this device type.Software version on these devices is: Check point gateway and management server: R80.10
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

new field to monitor jobs on the plan

Create a new editable column on DWC (E.g. Monitor Job/ Jobstream) where operators and users are able to edit and put notes for each job. Today similar functionally exists on TWS/z, field "Operation Text" where it can be informed some description.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Check the supplied hostname format before starting the install process.

When standing up a new Turbo VM from the OVA there is an option to run the ./t8c.sh script and pass a -h modifier followed by the desired host name of the VM - so it is not named the default node1. If a hostname is supplied with an improper format...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

(NPI) Ability to modify Traffic Volume Trend graph to view bandwidth by interface/circuit

Would like the ability to modify the Traffic Volume Trend graph to view the bandwidth used based on a specific interface and/or circuit, by percentage of bandwidth used (i.e. 0-100%).
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

src stops too early at system shutdown / reboot

during shutdown a linux server we want to exclude the node using /etc/init.d/rcx.. scripts but src was killed as soon as shutdown begins so we have no chance to stop our applications before.
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 5 Not under consideration

Make MAXDUR/MINDUR available in Job History as are latest start and DEADLINE already present

It is not possible to report on jobs that have exceeded their MAXDUR setting nor those that did not meet their MINDUR setting as this information is not recorded in the TWS database. This request is to include the amount of time the job exceeded t...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Expose PHP FPM connectionResets metric

Currently it is not possible to add a custom event based on the connectionResets FPM metric. This would be important to us as the limits set by the default "Too many connections reset" FPM event are too low and we would like to customize it.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration