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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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param.FilterSQL / param.FilterName as available runtime parameter for SQL tools

In order to limit the action of a tool to the event shown in an event list / event viewer it would be great to have the filter name or even better the filter SQL as runtime parameter available for SQL tools ( and it would be nice to have it availa...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Remove the first 3 characters currently rendered to denote the group in 'scope-based' searching

When clicking the first time on "scope-based" and enable the second sorting on "temporal" the alarms with temporal grouping are not sorted at all (even when hitting it multiple times). The Development Team has indicated there's a plan for a tweak ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

URLs for direct access to Action Center & Action Center Details

Desired customer use case: Customer is leveraging webhooks to send pending Turbo actions directly to end-users. They want a way to expose a link that takes the user directly to the Action Center Details view for a given entity/action. Today, we ca...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Use websockets to establish communication between MCM Cluster Hub and the managed cluster (Public Cloud)

Sometimes the cluster hub could be installed in a data center with several security restrictions, with some exceptions the customer could open the outbound traffic to internet, in order to manage another cluster like EKS, AKS, etc. but at the end ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Read only access to ALL tasks in Netcool Impact

BOA is needing the ability to authorize a user to have visibility to all functions within Netcool Impact, but disallow edits/modifications. This has to be an ADMIN RO view in the WebGUI within a Group Role.
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Request for support NGINX plus R32

We would like to request the addition of support for NGINX Plus R32 in the IBM Instana Observability platform. Based on the current documentation, the latest supported version of NGINX Plus is: NGINX Plus R31 for Glibc-based Linux and Alpine Linux
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Find Topology resources following the arrow direction and render them on page

In topology view, client want to see an ability to view resource with all "child resources" following specific direction arrows. e.g. down arrow (has) and not up arrow (runsOn). Currently AIOps Topology has "Get Neighbours" option which shows all ...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Run Datagather for FTA/DA/MDM from TDWC and sftp to TDWC tmp directory

An enhancement that allows an admin to run a datagatherer from the TDWC for any FTA/DA/MDM and have the file placed on the TDWC server would reduce time to get datagatherer to IBM support. Most large Environments seperate duties and IWS admins do ...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Batch operations

Hi, it would be very useful if it would be possible to do batch operations in the turbonomic ui. For example batch deletion, or batch creation of different things i.e Groups.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration