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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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Custom dashboard queries shows misleading retention information in case of approximation

We have example in custom dashboard were some panels with complex queries show approximation because of retention where the real reason is query time-out. Although we believe this is a flaw we were asked to raise feature request. So please conside...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 6 Under review

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration

Offering a "community edition" with certain limitations.

To sell the product as a Product Lead, it is necessary to adopt an SMB business approach of getting more users to try it first. In this case, as with many other SMB products, a license that is available for free use in the customer's environment i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility for multiple Gate.Jdbc.Url's in JDBC gateway properties file

Is it useful for installations where for example DB2 databases are hosted on remote locations in different subnets (like geo redundant data centers) where virtual ip address cannot be created. Everybody with such db2 database would benefit from it...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

nco_p_message_bus : Support to return custom message/ event tracking reference addition to HttpCode

nco_p_message_bus: Support for adding event tracking references or custom message returns addition with HTTP Status Code IBM should keep adding functionality to Message Bus as it becomes more and more popular as a webhook. nco_p_message_bus does n...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

VMware Horizon Instant Clone Enhancement

IU health has 18k Horizon Users spread across 14 desktop pools at peak and typically see 10-11k users in steadystate. The environment is designed to have large pools with little segmentation to unlock as much capacity as needed. The global entitle...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

ITNCM utility - icosutility (ResourceUtility) to allow encrypted password as argument when running via CLI interface

Why Icosutil allows creation of items like realms, RADs, NCS etc, which would otherwise need to be created via the GUI and typically is a time taking task. Who Operator and Administrators of the application will be able to install and configure th...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

Deleting previous year dates from existing calenders

We have some calendars defined in TWS database.These calendars are updated each year for the new dates of each year.We need a feature to delete the old entries for those existing calendars.This is raised as agreed in PMR case no TS005053976
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML emails

Netcool Email probe for reading HTML email format in the Body. Current email probe is capable of reading only plain text. Many users are looking for converting html email into an alert. It requires lot of efforts to write rules for reading HTML em...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add Blade Center to TADDM Integration Plugin

TADDM ServiceNow Integration plugin does not currently support sending BladeCenter (chassis, management modules, blades) to ServiceNow.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Not under consideration