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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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Group Creation - Reduce the list of filter values based on previous filter criteria already applied

When creating a group, a filter is added and list of workloads identified updates in real-time to show applicable systems fitting that filter criteria. However, when adding the next filter type such as Tags, i.e. Application, and clicking the drop...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

The plan function should include migration of SQL Managed Instances from on prem to the cloud.

These are very expensive entities - and the ability to estimate costs would be good. Also important, some customers use the exported plan as an input into a semi-automated migration process. So being able to include SQL machines in the planning fu...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Enable a toggle feature to be able to execute actions in a more granular way for Database Server recommendations

Currently recommendations for RDS may have three distinct changes: Instance type, instance size, storage type. In cases where one or two of the recommendations don't make sense, allow a toggle to disable that recommendation (either on the action d...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Integration of MCM with BMC Remedy

Lots of our customer user BMC Remedy as ITSM tool, need direct integration of MCM with BMC Remedy to push Incident data. Currently we are working for a Large Telecom client which runs a BMC heavy shop from ITSM perspective. We are looking for a wo...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Planned for future release

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed
11 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Planned for future release

Critical job should part of error handler layout

The batch operators need an indication in the error handler layout, which job is most critical, so troubleshooting can be started with that one. If two or more jobs are very close with latest start time, a critical path indicator is needed so oper...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting

We need the swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting. We are configuring custom events to trigger on swap memory. Currently, both the Memory > Swap Free and Memory > Swap Total metrics are measured in Bytes. They need to be a...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger Config Backup' and 'Trigger Config Restore' on the Resource Browser

Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger config backup' and 'Trigger config Restore' via an activity set via account management.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Planned for future release

automatic clearing of events log

events fill up and alerting stops
11 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release