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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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DI When adding Widget, Data settings are lost if the user navigates to another configuration tab before pressing Run.

Content creators lose time if they forget to press Run after selecting a list of Resources when creating.or modifying a Widget, and then navigate away from the Data configuration tab. Even saving a Report that has not been Run one time will lose a...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

DI Default Permissions to Public/ReadOnly when a "Template Report" is created.

Report Templates created today default to Public/ReadWrite, which allows ANY user to modify them. While this may make sense in very small deployments, larger organizations that use DI need to control who updates shared directional content like Tem...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Data Retention after Out of Memory error.

IBM Support Ticket TS014348006 describes a scenario where data in Instana is removed after a JVM on a host suffers an Out of Memory error. We can understand why data would not be available from the time of the error and until service is restored, ...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

The capacity values are different from temporarily created groups (by Turbonomic) VS groups created by users

This Idea is being raised from the bug ticket opened in Turbonomic JIRA- https://jsw.ibm.com/browse/TRB-52963. This bug came up from JPMC. For example, there are a total of 8 hosts in the entire environment, the capacity of memory is only 3 TB/hos...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Synthetics tests versioning

It would be great to automatically version Synthetic tests, so that users can scroll, see changes, and if necessary revert to older versions of tests and their configuration
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Cisco Intersight Managed Mode

Moving from Cisco UCS Manager to Intersight Managed Mode is resulting in a loss of feature functionality in data to enhance marketplace decisions. Please add support for Intersight Managed Mode to retain equivalent data as we add more and more IMM...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

vVol datastore support for storage moves

Allow storage move actions from VMFS datastore clusters to vVol datastores to provide a way to automate migration to vVols
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Future consideration

Add the ability to click out of an "x-able" box by clicking in a greyed out part of the window

It'd be nice ux for you to be able to click in any of the grey areas and it'll close out the window you had open. the x still exists as another option to click out of a config window. if there are changes when a user clicks out of the window, then...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration