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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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Provide basic entity information in tabular format for VM group scope

As a large enterprise with almost 800 active-active groups consisting of over 6000 VMs, we frequently find ourselves in need of a flat-view pane of basic VM information for all members of any one group. At the least, for example, we'd like to see ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
5 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Azure Sql Db scaling shouldn't only consider DTUS but also IOPS

This customer has an application which is very sensitive to IOPS. They specifically chose Premium Tier DTU , as it has MUCH more IOPS. >25 IOPS per DTU vs 1-4 IOPS per DTU. So when Turbonomic sees the DTU usage (which is a combination of CPU/ME...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

way to have TWSINST not start the Agent after it finishes

we like to control where the Agent runs on the AS400 iseries platform
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

VM Family upgrade to newer version even in case of no underutilization

We were looking if Turbo can provide any recommendation of VM Family upgrade even if there was no underutilization. For e.g when we compared the F series VM family, we could see the V2 version providing faster and cheaper VM of the same core. Whil...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Dolar and local currency

In Brazil, for customers who have AWS and another cloud with Azure and GCP, there is a big problem with the numbers displayed. In the latest version of Turbonomic, the local currency for Azure and GCP are default and AWS is necessarily in dollars....
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

Have the Policies tab always show the Consistent Resize scaling constraint and its value so that I can guarantee whether it is applied to a VM or group of VMs

When you navigate to a VM or group of VMs, I want to be able to see the value for Consistent Resize that is applied to each to confirm whether or not it is applied. Currently if it is not applied, the setting is not present. This way, there's an a...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Gamify Savings in Turbonomic to encourage competition.

Some of the biggest hurdles in achieving efficiency savings in Turbonomic is competing priorities. Some of the successes at companies to achieve Turbo driven savings, is to create a competitive game between departments and/or app teams on savings....
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

IWS v9.4 has a clock icon that displays a selection of times when setting up time restrictions on a job stream. IWS v10.1 does not have the same functionality.

The clock icon that displays a selection of times is useful when needing to quickly select the time, especially for people working in different time zones/countries. It should work exactly how it does in IWS v9.4, rather than having to manually en...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration