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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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Add to DWC "TEXT EDIT" option to IWS Workload Designer , similar to the layout of composer

As discussed with Marco and DWC level 3 development team , last week. We would like to see an enhancement to DWC Workload Designer where we can have the option of " Text Editor" , so the IWS object we have chosen is displayed similar to the compos...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Enable "Databases" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Databases" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs & opportunities for Databases service as well.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for "Volumes (Disks)" service as well.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable "Object Storage" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Object Storage" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for Object Storage service as well.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Scheduled reports should also be allowed to have excel/csv attachment.

Scheduled reports should also be allowed to have excel/csv attachment, currently only pdf is supported. This is useful specially for NXN reports. PFA scheduled mail which has only pdf report. The csv needs to be extracted manually.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Visualization of the top 5% (the part excluded in the case of 95pt)

I would like you to visualize the parts that are excluded in the case of 95pt (top 5%). This is to see the load conditions that are excluded from the optimization action considerations.I would like to use it as a reference for changes between 95pt...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

We can see the interfaces and their IP in object summary. These IP's are ipv4 need ipv6 aswell.

The SNMP walk file was able to find the IPv6 address for the interface object "GigabitEthernet0/4/0/19.1202". The OID for IPv6 is "'.1.3.6.1.2.1.4.34.1.3.2'".IP-MIB::ipAddressIfIndex.ipv6."24:00:52:00:a0:00:00:00:00:00:00:0d:04:00:0d:b9" = INTEGER...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Add a Dependency to Run Cycle Calendar

We would like the enhancement to ADD a Dependency to a run cycle Calendar
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration