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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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Support of one time import of CUR files etc. from AWS Billing Account

In large organisations, specifically in heavily regulated industries, integration from PoC or development environments to production accounts is not possible. The AWS billing account is main account and a production account. However, where turbono...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Keep Instana data in an isolated volume

I attempted to set up the Instana Docker backend by integrating an EFS storage solution, which I mounted to the /mnt directory. However, the installation process did not complete and became stuck at the "migrate-data" phase. Following this, I enco...
29 days ago in Instana / IBM Storage 0 Under review

IWS Agent installation on Rocky Linux

would be better if IBM supports IWS agent installation on Rocky Linux.
2 months ago in Workload Automation 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 ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow for wildcards on time arguments in conman commands (or more commands)

Our company uses conman commands regularly in our automation to perform many tasks that we would otherwise do manually. As often as possible, we use variables or wild cards so that hard-coding isn't needed. In some cases, that is now allowed. One ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Make authentications availability and location more flexible. For example, credentials for within body of request.

"Make authentications available for use within the body of or as parameters for the request. Some integrations and usecases like CURL or HTTPRequest I was looking to pass the credentials as a part of the body. Perhaps you set an authentication for...
16 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

Expose API Calls in RNA

Currently when testing any workflow for e.g. authentication failure, the logs are not verbose enough to show details of failure nor the details of API's calls being made. This makes it difficult to identify what is contributing to the failure.
16 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

Per workflow/folder git repository

allow for centralized control
16 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

Extend the support of NGINX monitoring and tracing for Red Hat Linux OS platform

Currently Red hat Linux OS does not supported for monitoring and tracing NGINX . Using NGINX on Red Hat OS is widely used in our bank .
17 days ago in Instana / Agent 1 Submitted

Submit complex IBM ELM JVM Mbeans or string based Mbeans as events or logs to Instana

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review