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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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Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Needs more information

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Support for centralized Azure Hybrid Benefit (centralized AHUB)

Azure came up with Centralized AHUB support for SQL licenses. Similar in concept to CUDs, where the customers can create a pool of licenses and have the SQL instances (SQL databases, managed instances etc ) consume the license from the pool. When ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Support for Azure App Service Reserved Instances

Turbonomic doesn't currently discover Azure App Service reserved instances thus may raise actions to scale down for savings due to under utilisation.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

NcKL - Omnibus probe rules file support for IPv6

NcKL - Omnibus probe rulesdoes not support Ipv6 at the moment. Several entries like $MOI_Remote = extract($Message, "neighbor ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+) ") are in rules files and needs to accept also Ipv6 addresses. Today more and more equip...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

DWC: view more dependencies

In DWC 9.5 we want to see more levels of dependencies when clicking the Dependencies button. Currently we only see direct dependencies and it is not enough. Ideally, there would be an option to choose how many levels of dependencies we want to see...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Locate Dependency Loops in DWC(Show Plan View)

This makes Dependency Loops graphically visible in the Show Plan View option
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Concatenation of variable is translating to Password

Hi IWA Team, I had a requirement to put the password as a concatenated variable and migrate the code to next instance. I have created the composer file for 100 jobs and in password section i have added ${password.key1}${password.key1} Then i used ...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Character Limitation on Variable length for a variable in Variable table.

Hi IWA team, We had a requirement where the parameter was more than 1500 character. We were not able to use the variable since there is limitation of 1025 characters, Could you please remove this limitation? Regards Lochan
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Business require synthetic test to run during business hours

I have a business unit who require a synthetic test to run during the work week between 08:00 and 17:00. At present you can only specify how offen the test should run specification .
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration