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Purestorage Cloud Block Store (CBS) support required for TWS (IBM Workload Scheduler - Distributed)

Purestorage CBS provides a more flexible, cost-effective, and globally accessible solution compared to native data disks, making it an attractive option for businesses seeking scalable and efficient storage solutions.
9 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

the process to update the SSL certificate needs to be better supported by the documentation

Customers (not just this one) have spent HOURS in VI editing the yaml file trying to get the cert to work. This will reduce customer frustration and improve the feeling towards our product. The current documentation (which is very good ) is here -...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Import multiple XML files to topology module in AIOps via file observer

We seek to import multiple XML files in Topology module rather than JSON files.The file observer can ingest JSON format as provided in this documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.8.0?topic=jobs-file-observer). Howe...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

AWS EMR Cluster Support and handling

Turbo does not inherently recognize this particular type of device (EMR Cluster) as a “special handling” instance; in effect it sees a list of instances that can be optimized. Without scaling these devices concurrently/consistently, the cluster wi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

Instana - Add Group Descriptions

Today in IBM APM, we can add descriptions to user groups to give more information about what the user group is for. There is no way to do that in Instana today. Can it be added?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Automated Download for Job Log Details of SAP Jobs

Our client has a critical need to integrate Job Log Details of SAP jobs managed by IBM Workload Scheduler into control and audit systems. To fulfill this requirement, it is essential to implement an automated download feature, enabling the logs to...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add support for nested groups when using Active Directory authentication

Turbonomic currently does not support nested AD groups – AD logins must be for users in a top-level group. In complex customer environment netest groups are the standard so that the customer cannot use AD groups. Please add support for nested grou...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Not under consideration

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Jobstream should go in ABEND status if one job in the stream is in error

A jobstream should go in ABEND status if one job in the stream is in error even if other jobs in the stream are in EXEC status.
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration