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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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Enable Smart Alerts for Traces

This would be useful because there are certain scenarios where certain types of data can only be categorized by filters by trace level instead of call level. Currently alerts and smart alerts can only be setup to filter by calls and not trace leve...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration

Tool for use in converting of .txt file based scheduling object definitions to .json as payload in the REST requests.

Currently using TWS version and are leveraging TWS REST API to create a robust CI, CD workflow to deploy objects like JOBS, SCHEDULES, RESOURCES to TWS servers. At this point all the TWS objects definitions available in a .txt file using syntax me...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Interface details needs to be displayed in Topology

Hello Team, We have the ITNM that is On-Prem and is running the Discovery. We also have an ASM cluster that is in the cloud and has the ITNM_Observer enabled to load the topology from On-Prem ITNM server. One of the requirement from our customer i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

PHP CLI Support Configuration in Instana-Agent

As an Instana user, I would like to have PHP CLI support configuration in the instana-agent, so that the PHP sensor always initializes without needing to rely on a running php-fpm process for auto-detection. This would be especially useful when tr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

Integration of MCM with BMC Remedy

Lots of our customer user BMC Remedy as ITSM tool, need direct integration of MCM with BMC Remedy to push Incident data. Currently we are working for a Large Telecom client which runs a BMC heavy shop from ITSM perspective. We are looking for a wo...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Planned for future release

Netcool WebGUI - Scope Based Event Grouping Page/Portal

On Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI - Scope based event grouping portal, one cannot re-arrange SBEG policy based on Name, Last modified or Enabled/Disbaled etc. This makes it difficult to manage the SBEG policies created.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

TEPS migrate script (used on non-Windows platforms) to operate against a remote MSSQL DB on Windows.

Hi IBM support, As a follow up to an IBM case which we had opened (Case ID: TS012735674), it was found that the existing TEPS running on non-Windows platforms like for example, xLinux and zLinux do not have the capability to perform migrate export...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 6 Not under consideration

Cancel a "cancel pending" state in the current plan

Possible to Cancel a Job in "Cancel Pending" state in the current plan because for some reason, a couple of hour after the switch plan, we want it finally to run.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Publish from Labor Activity Tab

When publishing from the labor activity tab, there is no indication or confirmation of what they are pushing.  Would be good to  provide an indicator of what you are publishing (FTE or Hours) or provide a choice/box to select 
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review