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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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Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
29 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 0 Under review

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
16 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Under review

Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Under review

Add the Friendly Region Name in workload planning

currently in the workload plannig there is only the region coding (e.g. eu-south1) and not the friendly name (e.g. Milan) for both clouds. Having the friendly name present would simplify the region search even for the inexperienced and speed up th...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Under review

Capability to draw the Layered topology

From stc(Telco) perspective, we need to have a layered topology plotting capability. For example, they want to see the Layer-1, 2 & 3 topology nodes in the begining, then they want the logical connectivity getting super imposed on top of this....
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page

Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page. Currently this is not the case and you have to go 3-4 clicks to reach the GIS Map view, either using a topology dashboard or viewer or from an alarm event viewer page.
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Log Anomaly Detection Alerts need improvement

The alerts generated by Log Anomaly Detection don't give an indication as to what the issue is. The Alert Summary only contains the template name. The Summary should be more user friendly..something like "log message xxxxxxx occurred x times" it t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review