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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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Allow flash time for EventViewer to be configured

The below properties in the <user>.nova files are applicable to AEL only ael_user_properties_flash_time:400 ael_user_properties_flash_brightness:0 ael_user_properties_flash_enabled:true ael_user_properties_notify_flash_icon:true The Event Vi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Gateway for Message Bus - support for custom omnibus tables

The gateway for messagebus should allow any (custom) table of the objectserver to be used as datasource for reader component, not just alerts.status
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling - Alert Suppression Request using web link or REST API call using programming and not just using Watson Maintenance windows

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling. In order of priority: Need an API for integrations Our Centralized Dashboard should have a way to set Maintenance Windows’s Users should be able to click a link in an incident ticket to disable/...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Targets and General Configurations as YAML

I have recently experienced issues at a customer that rotates credentials, api keys or access keys to endpoints or targets and have failed to update Turbo automatically because it is not baked into any operational process. Now the first thing that...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

SAML2.0 Integration for DWC and CLI

Provide integration with SAML2.0 for DWC and Remote CLI to enable authentication through our organisations Single Sign On
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Planned for future release

Increase Maximum Byte Constraint on "Node" (Currently 51 bytes)

Node name currently has a maximum byte size of 51 chars. We have nodes with FQDN's source AWS that require 75 chars. We request that node name be increased to some value at or exceeding 128 bytes to facilitate long node values in the future. Appli...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ProcessID missing in joblogs for windows processes

CASE ID - TS003942595During investigations to identify long running issues of a job, we found that Windows ProcessID is not supplied back to the Job Log, Yet for Linux/Unix processes the ID is provided. This makes tracing the process thats causing...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Node state shows as “Active” in Turbonomic Console even when a Node is marked as “unschedulable” in OpenShift

When draining a NODE OpenShift Kubernetes, and un-schedulable in OpenShift, Turbonomic console shows the node as "Active". There is no way to know if a NODE is un-schedulable or cordoned. Similar to VCenter where a Host is in maintenance mode it s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Functionality already exists