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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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ITP – Department Drop-Down

Expand the Department drop-down box to allow for more characters, improving visibility for all users.
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Visibility of Historic Recommendations

I'd like to be able to see the historic recommendations for a volume or VM. As the resource performance changes Turbo will be making recommendations and changing them and its this history that I want to be able to see. Some of our VMs are cyclical...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2

Submit complex IBM ELM JVM Mbeans or string based Mbeans as events or logs to Instana

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Extending Instana JAVA-Sensor to collect additional metrics from IBM ELM JVM's

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Topology mapping of devices per OSPF areas

For troubleshooting purposes, we need ability to restrict displayed devices to specific OSPF areas. Currently, Resource type filter allows topology items but only for Object groups, not Device groups.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration

Cloudability should be able to automatically archive deleted accounts

Cloudability has access to our billing account and to the API to query additional information. There should be a capability within Cloudability to automatically archive accounts that do not exist no more. Currently those accounts are grouped toget...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Need to support Oracle LDAP

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Oracle LDAP as a corporate identity provider system. Instana allows users in, however it doesn't allow to map groups with Instana groups for centralised user management. Customer has found that Instana includ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Under review

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Planned for future release