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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 each dashboard owner to determine who can access to it to limit access.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable each dashboard owner to determine who can access to it to limit access. Question by IBM team.------------------------- Valid RBAC request. Have you seen our new SaaS reporting opt...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Producing the API call so someone can take the API call, modify it then execute it themselves.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------------------------------------------ Output the execution command of the API running by "EXCUTE ACTION“ for needs of manual modification. Question by IBM tema.-----------------------------...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
16 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Language Expansion

At this time, only English and Japanese are offered as language settings in Apptio. It would be extremely valuable for the Spanish language to be added as well.
16 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
17 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Add Turbo MVS Licenses as an additional line in the Workload Improvements Widget

We've just had a sensitive conversation with the client where we were NOT able to give a clear count of License growth over time because we didn't have the data. Merely point in Time which was recorded by Jim. If we were able to put ACTIVE VM coun...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR MongoDB?

PostgreSQL is Opensource and widely used DB. Similarly, MongoDB as well is getting wider recognition. Support of these DBs is already there in IMPACT but missing for IBM JDBC Gateway. So, IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR M...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration