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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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Instana needs to support AutoTrace for OpenResty pod

Instana declares the support tracing for 3scale's OpenResty container. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-nginx#other-supported-information But its support is limited for the manual instrumentat...
10 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Planned for future release

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow resizing action of namespace quota

We, IBM CIO, set default namespace quotas in OpenShift clusters. However, some applications need to use more resources than the default resource quotas set. Either due to a technical reason or business criticality. Today, we need to contact SRE te...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Details around a versioned table in the pipeline step

As a user I would like to be able to identify where a version in a table has happened and when. We would like to include it in the pipeline step shown in the image below, therefore, it is obvious there is a version and the document does not have t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Under review

Generate documentation from system note fields

In TBM Studio we can create in-product documentation writing notes on:- Tables in the Table description- Columns in the Description of the Import step as well as in the Formulas step- Allocations in the Notes section- Metrics in the Description fi...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

In Turbonomic Segments view of Policies, allow sort/filter/group by Type (e.g. Host Merge, Storage Merge, Network Merge under Merges)

The one-layer depth to the Turbonomic Segments portion of policies makes for difficult searching and sorting. Adding additional filters at each of these pages would help reduce noise and improve ease of management. I have submitted similar ideas i...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Allow use of VLAN ID for network matching for segmentation

Today, to verify a VM can live on another vCenter, Turbonomic checks the port group name to ensure match and that the same network is available at the destination. This idea is to match on the VLAN ID instead of the port group name string.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

User with the permission of edit team to be able to assign User to the Team even if when they are not part of it

We want User with the permission of edit team to be able to assign User to the Team even if when they are not part of it.   The reason is while working in SAFe you have e.g. the role of the release train engineer above the Teams and this rol...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review