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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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Cloudability- Enhance reporting filters to allow multi selection of values

As a FinOps practitioner at a large organization, I often need to report on multiple values relating to services, accounts, account group tags, etc. It's a cumbersome user experience to have to add a filter for each case. By adding a multi-select ...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 3 Planned for future release

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Need SSH support for kex algorithm diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256

We recently encountered an issue where ITNM is not support the kex algorithm supported by the device we want to interrogate.
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

NFS support

Please extend your code to allow pods to use NFS without creation of PV. support documentation can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#nfs
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Maintain Identity of Stateful Workloads Running on Spot Instances

As a Turbonomic User, Cloud Engineer and FinOps Practitioner I want to maintain the identity of stateful workloads currently managed by Spot.io so that when a "recycle" occurs in Spot.io and the disk is detached and reattached to a new compute ins...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Under review

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

The SevOne DI reports scheduled to FTP were overwritten

Dear Sir: We found out when we were scheduling (every weekly or monthly auto export) FTP exported the report of Data Insight. The FTP exported PDF file name of Data Insight is the same as previously file name. So the new exported file PDF will cov...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Create additional fields for interfaces collected by the SevOne Observer for AIOps

1) In the current version of the SevOne Observer, there is no way to associate interface into a resource group. There is no field to identify what device a interface belongs to. A field should be added to the interface record that includes the dev...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Under review

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2