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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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HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
6 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

Integrate IBM Workload Automation SaaS with Omnibus

Need to raise a RFE with product team to Integrate IBM Workload Automation SaaS with Omnibus. It is integrating Netcool Omnibus with IWA Dynamic Agent.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

The metrics pods are erroring out because they cannot have a secret defined for them. This causes many errors. Need to turn them off OR add a secret.

The current metrics pods are used to gather data for the last 14 days so that Turbo instances can instantly give recommendations on being connected to a new target without having to wait 14 days. However in this particular client (and I'm sure oth...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Is a defect

Plan improvements: Downloading all plan results

Turbonomic planning allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size node would be be...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

When a script is part of a resize policy the vCPU & vMEM actions are executed together.

Execution of pending actions are completed immediately instead of backing off or executing separately extending the change window. Fewer number of reboots to complete pending actions including vMEM, vCPU, socket matching compliance. Script complet...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

IWS 9.5 Being able to work with the long term plan in DWC when using a Z engine.

IWS 9.5 Being able to work with the long term and trial plan in the DWC when using a Z engine. This is tied to case number TS003457143.
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

SNMPv3 Engine ID changes

Incorporate the SNMPv3 engine id CHANGE natively within the product
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Reports to be Accessed for Closed Time Periods

End-users who do not have admin access should be able to access the reports even for closed time-periods otherwise the reports might not be helpful to them and each time an admin would have to intervene to keep changing the time-periods.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Optimize Load time for dependencies/Flow tab under application perspectives

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down and historical in...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration