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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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Variance Analysis grouped by Account Category Code but showing Account Category Name

As Variance Analysis is grouped by Account Category Code but showing Account Category Name it can create lines that look like duplicates to end user.  If different Account Category Codes share the same Account Category Name, currently a separ...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ScopeID and Policy information on Alerts detail

Customer wants to have more datail about how alerts are grouped and what policy was used for that. This help to improve policies and it's configurations, and a better understanding when they are troubleshooting incidents.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Submit folder

We want to be able to submit a folder, with all its jobs/streams/dependencies into the plan. Just like you can submit an existing stream or job into the plan.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improve readability of Component Comparison results

Configuration Comparison is essential capability of the TADDM product. However, the result that is generated when using this functionality is usually full of 'Last Stored Time' results - these occur for every comparable component because they are ...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Instana fix pack upgrade directly from one version to any version should be possible

Currently we are using 1.239 version which is 6 months old than the latest version 1.263. Currently Instana doesn't support direct upgrade from one version to any version. We have to upgrade atleast 6 times to reach to the latest version 1.263. In...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Instana to support GPU monitoring on Openshift Container Platform

Hi, My customer ISBANK needs Instana to support GPU machines on openshift.Instana supports GPU monitoring for just standalone docker servers with GPUs. According to the result of a related case, we learned that there is no support for GPU monitori...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Gray out DWC options if user does not have access to IWS sec file

Manage workload definitions > Select engine > "Search job definition" > "Advanced" > "search for job name that dont have access, e.g. "Unau*" > "select all of them" > click edit
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

OOB functionalities oriented to telecommunications companies

The event management solution, NOI has and is used by many companies in the telecommunications sector and we are promoting Cloud Pak for watson AIOPs as the evolution of traditional management, I believe it would be of greater impact if we had OOB...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Provide an UI view for the historical resolved alerts, stories WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager). There is a filter that let's you choose "Status = Resolved" but it is not showing result.

The customer will like to have some way to show the lasted alerts and stories been resolved because it could be shown on stories and alerts after. How to visualize resolved Stories? There is a filter that let's you choose "Status = Resolved" but i...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide more information on-demand costs in the Recommendation download file for VMs

I would like to see both the on demand costs for the downsized machines both with ROI and without the ROI as it will be more helpful on calculation savings from the on demand
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration