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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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Adjusting the Roles for the filters and views so no users will be able to change the Filters for Global users

Hello Team, We would like to restrict the ability to edit the filters for all the users and only make that change available to that specific user making that change. We currently have 2 groups - Admins and Analyst. Currently the Analyst are able t...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

SNA application support for Instana on z

Instana cannot trace SNA application.Please add the support to trace by Instana, or provide the method to trace it by the customizing application programs, such as adding the tracing subroutine.
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Not under consideration

Perform a search based on actual model.

To have the ability to search based on the actual model.I can now search on VTMOS but that shows not always the required result.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Instana Agent/Sensor to monitor the ISAM & ISIM physical appliances

We have the IBM Security Access Management & IBM Security Identity Management applications which are hosted on the physical appliances. We are looking for an Instana Agent Sensor to connect to the physical appliances and monitor the applicatio...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

TWS Operator Comments Section for each job

While performing operations on jobs like say putting a job on hold, a section to capture operator comments is required. This helps when there are multiple shifts and handover of operations to next shift. By capturing the comments it helps operatio...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improve context discovery for TOP widgets

There is no timeframe associated with the TOP widgets. The information displayed reflects the data collected during the most recent discovery cycle. Customers are confused when comparing the data from the TOP widget with data from other sources (e...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Naming convention while Importing policies from Targets

When Integrated with vCenter Target, Turbonomic is downloading Affinity policies defined in vCenter but naming in Turbonomic is completely changed. EndUser can't rename the policy names in Turbonomic as its ReadOnly. Customers exacts the naming ma...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Functionality already exists

Rename 'Current Transfers' to 'Current Active Transfers'

When file transfers are going on, and the Instana UI is in live mode, the 'Current Transfers' metric on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard always remains '0' (see the yellow highlight on the screen shot). On the other hand, the ...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Ability to change policies on Databricks clusters: autoscale;autopause

Some users do not enable autopause and autoscale in their databricks environments. Although it is very hard to use Turbo's capabilities to resize databricks VMs as they spin up and down so often, it would be very helpful to change cluster policies...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Show status change history of MFT transfers

Our customer needs to track their MFT file transfers and they need to have insights in when file transfers change their status from Started to Progress and finally Successful or Failed. So we need some kind of table that lists all the status chang...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration