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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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Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them

Add functionality to monitor status pages of other tools and trigger events or query data from them. Users will be able to keep an eye on all used thrid party services in one place.New Relic and other products also provide this service. See https:...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Azure HyperScale DBs have read-only replicas which are very expensive. Can Turbo provide recommendations for the number of these?

Azure HyperScale Databases have the option for read-only replicas. These can cost $1000+/mo in addition to the cost of the main db. Is there a way that Turbo can recommend how many of these read-only replicas are needed to maintain performance but...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

RTEMS IBInterface doStageTwoProcess messages to be sent to the MSG2 log

Currently the Stage 2 messages are sent to the RTEMS RAS log, which roll and are overwritten the frequency and speed of which is determined by the amount of tracing that is enabled. These messages : (64D867A4.0008-7:ko4crtsq.cpp,6936,"IBInterface:...
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration

Connect IWS to CyberArk to allow CLI to function.

Connect IWS to CyberArk, to allow checking of password change from vault, to alleviate static passwords, used within the conman and composer CLI
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

SNMP Probe able to handle v3 traps with 100+ end points

When using the SNMP Probe to receive v3 traps, these need to be added to the mttrapd.conf file. When the Probe starts, it reads in this file and creates a hash table of the entries. For 5k entries, this process can take 10 to 20 minutes just to lo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Limiting host agent CPU installed using Archive (tar.gz) technology

The agent is being installed using the static host agent tar.gz file provided by the Backend, the compress file is copied and extracted on the target host. Then, the agent is configured as needed. Using the archive technology (tar.gz) you can limi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Custom dashboards: Copy a dataset or filter from one widget to another

Background and context When creating a dashboard it's often useful to re-use datasets or filters between different widgets. If it's the same widget, the duplicate widget functionality can be used, but there is no way to re-use a dataset or filter ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Mobile Monitoring: Filter out network errors by default so mean latency is correct

Background and context The mean latency information in mobile monitoring is currently very skewed by that some calls show extremely high latencies. This is due to that Instana measures some corner cases that is not really interesting from performa...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

File Association in Work item Perspective

Current Behavior of the tool :In ECU.WORX.ALM work Item perspective, only text editor is set by default for text files. But If user tries to open other files like *.mic,xml, etc. it gives an error. Enhancement Request:To show other files content l...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Orchestration 2 Not under consideration

Able to add Runcycle to job

We have requirement where some job instead job stream should run only on Workdays and currently we split them into 2 job streams1) To run on every day at certain time2) To run on workdays at certain time If we get option to setup runcycle at job l...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration