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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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Capture details on request payload

Need ability to capture details on request payload this helps to troubleshoot issues without need for applications to log the same. Feature available with competitors. Please refer to - https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/4.5.x/en/application-monito...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

The ability to display reserved space in the Turbonomic UI for initial placement.

There are multiple accounts which I work with which utilize Turbonomic for initial placement of VMs on hosts within their clusters. When these reservations are placed, there is currently no method in the Turbo UI to show the amount of space which ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

User option to cleanup old images following the upgrade process.

When performing an upgrade of Turbonomic the old images are just left in the /var directory. Nexttime when a user goes to upgrade and they run the upgrade-precheck.sh script, the /var directory is often over the 70% limit and the user must manuall...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Event handler email attachments

An Action to send an email should allow one or more file attachments.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Ability to investigate Active Sessions

Whenever Instana shows high Active Sessions for a particular war file, there is no way to investigate high Active Sessions. Please add more details about active sessions to find how and who created these sessions (some basic information for who c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

zCentric Agent Installation as root

We are trying to remove reliance on root to install our TWS agent. However, after installation, there is the error - the userid used to install TWS can't impersonate to the proid which we used to run the job. We are attempting to mitigate root acc...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ITNCM worker failed to reconnect to DB

We would like a new timeout on the worker database connection so that the worker reconnects to the DB if the connection drops.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add possibility to define hidden/password fields for Runbooks

In NOI the Runbook component allows to define parameters in order to customize Runbooks and Automations. It is necessary for some of these parameters to represent passwords, so the confidential information is not disclosed accidentally. Currently ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

OMNIbus EventViewer grouping size and user preference retention

On WebGUI Event Viewer when events are grouped, the grouping box takes up about 20% of the screen and whilst it can be shrunk down, this is not remembered for each GUI user or capable of being set via a setting in preferences.ie. an option to reme...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Add feature that would allow the DWC to capture in a log the last time a user logged into the client.

Security audits are asking for information on when users last logged into the DWC.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release