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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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Default MSL *LINUX_SYSTEMS should segregate the rhel 7 & 8 versions.

There are certain process which are different in rhel7 & rhel8 so while creating situaiton for these process monitoring it is difficult to separate the OS versions. and it will be huge effort in larger environment to manually creating separate...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

OMNIbus Probe/Gateway for Kafka Integration with Confluent Kafka

The Probes/Gateways for Kafka Integration has been certified, with Apache Kafka and IBM Event Streams. IBM event streams is deprecated and we are positioning only Confluent Kafka as part of Cloud Pak for Integration. So certification for Confluent...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need multi baseline - multi variate support for ICAM in PI

We plan to use ICAM as a replacement for Tivoli ITM. We are using already Predictive Insight and need full multi variate support in PI for multiple baseline support in PI. I have opened in PI but i dont know if i need another one for ICAM.
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Restricting/Disable un-used ObjectServer Fields from WebGUI Event viewer double click

When we double click an event from WebGUI event viewer, we are seeing all the Omnibus fields and most of the fields are empty and not required for the NOC team. Customer is interested to see only the important or required columns when they double ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

DWC 9.4 - Critical jobs progress bar with date and time filters

DWC 9.4 - Would like the ability to display a progress bar for jobs in the critical path and be able to set parameters for input arrival date.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Nightly Plans Cluster Resize (By Host)

A customer is looking for additional information to be made available from our Nightly Plans run. They would like to include a Cluster RightSize calculation or, be provided with the number of hosts can be suspended. They calculate on a daily basis...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Verify via API when the Nightly Plans Are Completed

Some customers run overnight processes to evaluate capacity and availability data from Turbo to be integrated into other internal systems. These programs need to run only after our Nightly Plans process has finished up. They have requested a simpl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Would like Instana to support the writing of the agent logs to the syslog system - See support request 30210

We have both aix and linux agents. We had both agents successfully writing to our syslog for quite some time (> 9 months). Recently (perhaps 6 weeks ago), after we upgraded our agents, the aix agent no longer writes to the syslog. The linux age...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

Single pane to view all restarted containers and pods for a deployment

At present there is no single view to see the graphs related to contianers those are created after restart of pods in a deployment. As these all containers belong to same deployment they should show restart-event and continuous graph related to co...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Not under consideration