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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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Extended jobname in DWC

Customers running both the mainframe and distributed workloads often search for extended jobnames and require a view to display it
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Comparison should be more granular in IT planning

Hi, our company just started to use apptio. Our IT division use IT planning at budget process and forecast process. At forecast, we create forecast plan based on original budget. Actually we would like to input forecast value while watching b...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

MQ Series Monitoring Agent: Include the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers) support in ITCAM for Messaging agents.

The Monitoring team has been received a demand from MQ team about their new environment in the RDQM (Replicated Data Queue Managers). Usually the new environment is composed of 3 servers, with one service active and the others in stand-by. But, ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Instana: Built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert needs to take active/inactive memory into consideration

The existing built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert in Instana is unusable and I will be using Turbonomic instead. The below SuSE Linux URL supports this stand as well. SuSE Support: Memory management best practices URL: https://www.suse.com/sup...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Parse json formatted logs to generate fields and extract log level

We're writing lot's of logs in json format as this is very helpful with other log management solutions (Graylog2, Datadog) to parse these logs into fields and have very searchable data. This would be necessary for us to further use Instana Log ana...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Add End User's IP Address and Hostname to INSTANA's Action Logs and Access Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure and identify security incidents. This is a requirement for PCI Certification.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

ability to remove MFA/2FA from users who lost their MFA device

We often run into the situation where the user loses an Instana MFA/2FA device, and to re-enable the user, we have to raise a ticket to wipe the user and re-create the user from scratch. So this can be easily fixed by giving Instana admins the opt...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Oracle alert log data on the mcm console

We are missing oracle alert log data in UI (mcm console), I had a discuss with UI developer team to develop UI so that we can see the oracle alert log data in mcm console same as ITM oracle extended agent. IBM Case# TS014762727
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Autometic Geo failover of Two separate MCM environments - how we can failover agents without a post-configuration script such as 1) using the same custom certificate and 2) DNS hostname change with the same ip address.

Geo failover prevents a single point of failure. Using the same custom certificate for two different MCM environments gives active/active or active/passive failover mechanism for uninterrupted 24X7 monitoring.
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration