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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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Increase the max observation period for VM Default policy to 120 days rather than the current maximum of 90 days

It would be useful so that we can track more 1 quarter's worth of performance & capacity metrics data. We have application customers with VM's that run hot only once per quarter and would like to see their capacity and performance data coverin...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

Request to enhance the JDBC gateway to enable connections to two Databases in a single gateway process

Request to allow JDBC gateway to write to two databases in a single gateway process - This allows us to write to different databases at the same time ensuring the delivery of all alarms to both the databases simultaneously.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Mange totals at the bottom of a column

Some columns contain an average or a multiplier (eg, number of users) that doesn't make sense to make a total from. I wish we could right click in TBM Studio and choose "Total, Average, None".  Also happens on the Totals column, all Metrics a...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Allow filtration by entity type in Group Management page

We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best especially when there are so many to filter from and having all engineers keep track of all sorts of naming conventions is not simp...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Functionality already exists

Provide ability to unschedule previously scheduled work in Maximo Scheduler.

In Maximo Scheduler, there is currently no ability to unschedule work that has already been scheduled. Can you please provide a way to do this? The reason this is so important to me, and my organization is that sometimes we have to deschedule work...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allow Custom Report Collections in Vendor Insights

We are building some custom reports in the Vendor Insights Project, that need to be added as new Report Collections in Vendor Insights. Currently, Vendor Insights project doesn't allow us to create/add custom named Report Collections to it. It wil...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Driver sensitivity analysis without having to re-upload to a ‘what-if’ branch

Customer's current workflow is to run a Budget/Forecast (as of a point in time) is to export the latest month’s transformed & consolidated rule/drivers set and upload that as a direct input into their Budget/Forecast models in the project (vs ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies. We selected the 'review first' option for temporal grouping and all temporal policies are now visible in the Suggested tab. But ideally all policie...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration