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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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2 or more poll data on a same graph

There is a need to show data from at least 2 poll polices on a same graph for single device. This is necessary to provide in order to replace other vendor software usage with ITNM at customer and to keep same device usage visibility that previous ...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Trace Pega solution (Java Based) at the Rules level.

Please Monitor Pega solution at the 'Rules' level. Currently, we are attempting to leverage the Configuration Based Java Tracing SDK - this is not allowing us to configure each rule and display it where it is easily tracked in the UI - this hinder...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Customer wants to be informed which Azure Reserved Instances are not visible to the Turbo Azure Service Principal. This leads to improved cost information on savings.

See IBM Case TS011934194. In the discount inventory report available under Cloud, the column cost savings is wrongly indicated. Instead of calculating the savings by subtracting the PAYGO rate minus the 3 year RI reserved rate, the report is showi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Functionality already exists

Autotrace Webhook init resources

The current implementation of the autotracing webhook creates an init pod with low cpu and memory limits. For us this can result in some throttling while it starts and copies the files into the main pod. We would like the ability to have these val...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Normalize Manufacturer and Model fields CDM

Normalize the Manufacturer and Model fields in the TADDM DB, so we can use the values to find enhanced information on the product.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Addition of Application Signature

Any application which runs on Windows/Linux consumes resources like CPU, Memory, storage from the client operating system. The resource utilizations of all application are shown and visible to the client OS. If there would a way in turbonomics to ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

Request for ITNCM Device Driver for Huawei ATN 950D V800R021C00SPC100

Customer is requesting for ITNCM device driver for "Huawei ATN 950D V800R021C00SPC100" which is one of their core router in their core network.
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Instana Metrics Sensor for Solace Message Broker on Docker

We have more than 30 Teams using the Message Broker Technology - Solace. Some of them are central data providers, which makes this Technology a critical component in the overall the company Service & technology landscape. Operating and Monitor...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Free day rule E on IWS Distributed

Difference between IWS z/OS and IWS distributed on the freeday rule.In IWS z/OS you have a freeday rule "E" which exclude the freedays. This feature doesn't exist on IWS D
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

To avoid disk getting full due to agent retrying failed attachements (Re : INSTANA-I-1077)

Although INSTANA-I-1077 has become "Not under consideration", we'd like you to reconsider by checking our new comment (explanation on our purpose of the request). Thanks. "Hi, Henning. Thank you for your time for INSTANA-I-1077. Before you close t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration