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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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Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Website application monitoring "in-flight request"

Hi. We are using website monitoring feature but we noticed that request that has been started but not yet completed, a.k.a. a request in progress are not traced/visible. Is there any option to see those in-flight requests or if not could be this f...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

CPU Socket adjustment.

client: " I’d like to have Turbo always set the number of CPU sockets to 2, and to adjust the cores per socket # to modify the # of vCPUs when RightSizing. Currently this is accomplished with a custom script. I would like this configurable on at t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Functionality already exists

SQL Target Enhancement

Client would like the SQL targets to be enhanced so that they can configure them with multiple ports and potentially multiple credentials.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Increase size of summarization and pruning agent tables columns

There is an a discrepancy between the columns lengths in CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis and CICSplex_Service_Class_Analysis_(H,D,W,M,Y). All time related decimal columns in S&P columns are defined as DEC (31,2) and do not match with CICSplex_...
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

IBM APM 8.1.4 supports RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4?

Please let us know what will be the ETA for IBM APM 8.1.4 supporting RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Pod readiness alert should heed delay settings

We've got some issues with the pod readiness event. Some of our pods need some time to start. To make up for this we've set the initialDelaySeconds value on our probes. However the pod unready probe does alert after a pod has been unready for a mi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Customise DASH LOGON.JSP

Just want to customise LOGON.JSP with company logo or background image. Also add some HTML Anchor links or buttons to access the external app or internal DASH pages [DASHBOARD] Create banner or maintenance message and special instructions to users...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration