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Recommend expand disk/volume in Cloud.

In Cloud environment. If I find that the disk is almost full, will Turbo automatically recommend to expand the volume size for fixing disk full? In document, I found some recommendation on IOPs, Throughput and unattached volume deletion. So, It's ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Some contents are not in the high contrast mode and/or not well perceptible.

- It should be guaranteed that the contrasts of all contents can be adapted with the Windows contrast adaptation. During the contrast adaptation all information would keep on should be readable for visually handicapped users. - The background of...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

RESTART and CLEANUP on distributed d-centric agent

Facilitate adoption for d-centric agents, By allowing restart and cleanup. For usample we can use datastore to capture the output.
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support creating application yaml from already deployed app

When importing existing cluster or when apps are deployed outside MCM, add ability to create a simple application yaml so that the user can take advantage of MCM capabilities.
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Omnibus Gateway map file conversion of UTC time values to date time string

Some OMNIbus Gateways produce output where UTC time values need to be written out as a date time string. For example it might be necessary to covert 1666183259 to 'Wed Oct 19 13:40:59 2022' or similar. The gateway mapping file process already pro...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Instana needs to create a sensor agent to observe Spectrum Scale on Linux on Z

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and is investing heavily in a hybrid cloud platform inclusive of Instana. We want to make use of this footprint and Instana observability capabilities across our hybrid cloud, withou...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Mark "downstream" services accordingly and filter them in the dashboard

Once you select "Automatically include Downstream Services in Applications" it would be interesting to: (1) See the "downstream services" marked as such in the "services" list and dependancy map etc. (2) Have an ability to turn on/off the downstr...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Non interactive account to install IWS

We need to be able to install the IWS MDM with a NON interactive Linux IPA service account. KPMG service accounts do not allow login nor can you 'su - ' to them. At thif tim version 9.5 and 10 require the TWS user account to have login capable int...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business plug-in - Selectively include Oracle Request log in IWS job log

The request log from an Oracle E-Business concurrent program submission, managed by IWS, is not currently included in the associated IWS job logs. Having the ability to selectively include the request log into the IWS job log can make it easier fo...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration