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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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Request for Modification to "Parker" Role in Turbo SaaS

Reviewing the new "parker" role in Turbo SaaS and would like to request a modification. Our goal is to assign this role to a large number of users and make Turbo self-service for parking activities. Currently, the role allows users to create and u...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 7 Future consideration

Improve the vCenter observer for CP4AIOPS and ASM.

Current observer contains a lot of resources that have limited value by themselves and should be properties of a parent. For example virtual servers are a resource but the observer also creates a child resource for each VM called CPU that contains...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Add "Cluster Tags" to VM group creation

Currently there is not a way to create VM groups based on its cluster tag. This feature would provide a great way to create dynamic groups based on something we can extract from vCenter from other use cases. For example, say I have a supercluster ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view

Configuration of Application Perspective spanning over multiple custom tag filter criteria in End-to-End view We need urgently a way to build application perspective views based on discrete call tags that arise at various points in service hierarc...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Job Management Plugin needs to be able to rerun jobs in different Streams

For a very simple process that needs to rerun a job in the same stream this works fine. But the use of this would more likely be handled by a simple job rerun setting or maybe a recovery job. To make this far more useful the plugin should also be ...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Capture utilization history for frequently redeployed workloads

As a user of Turbonomic I would like my workloads that I redeploy every 30 days, to have their utilization captured historically so that i can use more than 30 days of utilization data in scaling analysis.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Logo Admin Enhancement Request

Add ability for Apptio Admins to view logos loaded for clients within AWS and be able to load or remove logos as needed vs having to submit a support ticket. Slack: https://apptio.slack.com/archives/C0H96R4AV/p1701989912244109?thread_ts=1701989152...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration