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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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User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 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.------------------------...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Show host to host connections in Topology Resource groups

Currently there is a limitation of showing host to host connection from topology resource goups, but with the alerts correlation we are saying the resource group is showing the events getting correlated based on topology, but in the group view all...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Targeting Oracle Connections - since Turbonomics requires Oracle Service Name and could be multiple Service names per VM server

creating 1 group for each Oracle VM and having 1 target connection for each Oracle DB service Name - get very cumbersome and quite manual and hard to maintain
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Have standard time selection for Resource inventory

To be able to select last month, last 30 days, last 7 days, etc. for resource Inventory
14 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted. This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
27 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Adapt number format to regional conventions for decimal and thousands separator

For European users, the display of amounts in the American format can be quite annoying. E.g. The numeric fields are formatted using the American conventions: - point as decimal separator - comma as thousands separator e.g. 880,000.00 In Germany, ...
27 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Limit the number of children events in Scope Based Event Grouping Policy

Currently, any number of children events can be added to a parent event or group using Scope Based Event Grouping. At present, 100s of events can be grouped under a single parent group. However, there should be a way to limit the number of childre...
27 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review