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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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Extra function for auto approve storage "Move volume" actions

we would like to make more use of “auto approve” our storage moves actions But ideally we would like the actions to prioritise certain smaller VMs first and also only move larger VM’s between certain times. An initial thought would be to create a ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

User preveilages on Events and Alerts

We need to know how to manage Permissions for user/group for: User able to create event on his infrastructure scope / zone. it means that user can create event with threshold for cpu for example on his authorized host zone ONLY. and he can not see...
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Export/Import Application Description

The import fúnction is using the option DBMODE EXPORT/REPLACE in one step, but to split both OPTIONS in two steps is a better solution.This was also confirmed by IBM. We asked IBM if they plan to implement the two step solution also in the dialog ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Pre-requisites for OMEGAMON Instana Integration Proxy

Now OMEGAMON Instana Integration Proxy requires Kubernetes, but it is too tough to use it in our customer's environment because the workload for deployment and management is too heavy. Also about micro-k8S, it is not acceptable for our customer be...
11 months ago in Instana 1 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered

CNEA - Event Viewer - Maintain the subgroups within the main large group

CNEA - In Event Viewer maintain the subgroups within the main large group after the correlating alarms is complete. Current status - it brings in subgroups, but finally it flattens all alarms within the main parent. We need the subgroups intact, s...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

MCM to provide the choice of deploying multiple version of OCP cluster on AWS

Details: Currently via MCM we cannot provision different version of Openshift cluster on AWS as the version is dependent on the openshift-installer binary and which is a static value in multicluster-hub-cluster-api-provider-ocp microservice.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered

Need RedHat Cluster Suite (RHCS) discovery & mapping in TADDM

Need TADDM to be able to discover and map all servers in a RedHat Linux cluster.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Delivered

Netcool WebGUI load balance support for Oracle database

Currently WebGUI (JazzSM) only supports the usage of DB2 in the HA load balanced configuration, we are in need of this configuration to support the usage of Oracle as part of our new firm driven requirements.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Prompt to Confirm UI Delete Function

In The UI, when the user chooses to delete a reservation or a target, we would like an "Are You Sure" type of prompt to confirm that the Delete is truly purposeful and not something accidental. This feature will help save time and aggravation when...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered