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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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ITM SQL Agent should optimize the SQL Server plan cache usage.

Problem is that currently plans are created for every query ( samples in attached document ) that means overhead in creating a lot of plans only used once and a waste of plan cache memory.That could be optimized to reduce the plan cache memory.
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Mange totals at the bottom of a column

Some columns contain an average or a multiplier (eg, number of users) that doesn't make sense to make a total from. I wish we could right click in TBM Studio and choose "Total, Average, None".  Also happens on the Totals column, all Metrics a...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Custom Lists, Line Item Filter & Cost Object permission

It would be nice to have the possibility to synchronise the custom lists, line item filters and cost object permission btw CT and ITP. The idea is to have multiple entities for he custom lists, line item filters. Cost Object permission is an inter...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Under review

When an action execution is blocked by relative actions, user should be able to see the list of all those relative actions (possibly as a dependency chain)

When the action execution is blocked by relative actions, i.e with status "Action execution is blocked by related actions on this entity or destination entity." , as a user I don't have an easy way to find out which other actions are causing the b...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Events add - ability to add the joblog from a batch job Event Rule in the Event Email that is sent out to individuals

This is useful because customers can see just in their email what the issue in the joblog was.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 0

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

TNPM. Upgrade of JBoss to RHEL supported version

When scanning vulnereability of our application server(s), we've noticed that JBoss 4.x is no longer supported by Red Hat, which caused vulnerability flags. We've been informed that JBoss itself is tightly integrated with TNPMW application, so upg...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 2 Not under consideration

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper EX Devices with OS version 22.*,23.*

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper EX Devices with OS version 22.*,23.* From the security standpoint Juniper has recommended to move to newer versions of JunOS e.g. 22.* and 23.* and with the older versions h...
11 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release

ITNCM Drivers to support Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 21.*,22.*,23.*

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper QFX Devices with OS version 21.*,22.*,23.* From the security standpoint Juniper has recommended to move to newer versions of JunOS e.g. 22.* and 23.* and with the older vers...
11 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Planned for future release