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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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In the Alleviate Pressure Plan the for the cold clusters the sorting order should be reversed to put green clusters at the top.

When utilizing the Alleviate Pressure Plan first a hot cluster is selected which is either a red, yellow, or orange cluster - which are sorted to the top for easy selection. On the next selection to select a cold cluster the sort order is the same...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

DWC - Create datasource for a selected flow based on endpoint(s)

We would like to be able in DWC to create a datasource extracting entire flow which one or more given job(s) is/are depending on (no matter job status).
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enabling Java Profiling for Applications running on Kubernetes

Currently, we only have Instana AutoProfile to support for Java applications which is running on EC2 instacnes. However we want similar feature for an application which is running on Kubernetes hosts as a conatiner application.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Functionality already exists

Have actions visibility adjustable at user/group level

Option to turn on/off actions types for users . Would be a nice feature to have the ability to turn on/off action "types" for each users . Example = Might have a user/group (advisor) that we only want them to see sizing actions = (turn on) sizing ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

Instrumentation for Spring Native

Please add support for Spring Native to Instana - all tracing and infrastructure monitoring, custom metrics (e.g. micrometer).
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 5 Not under consideration

agent upgrade post validation is needed

a post validation step needs to be added to the agent upgrade VB script to ensure we are able to resume batch after a successful upgrade.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button

Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button. This would benefit both the Turbonomic PS/CS team members and client to understand and identify the current client licensing. It would work that at the heading would di...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

TWS job and job stream char limit increase

pmr 744070,082,00 This PMR addresses the question about the jobstream character limit. I found that a request has been made to change the character limit for both jobstream and job names from 16 and 40 to 40 and 64 respectively. I tested the jobst...
over 13 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration

Prompt user to login (two use cases)

Customer would like to be prompted to either login after an expired session in UI or when he is trying to do something that requires that he is logged in. Perhaps this could be configured with Session settings. The problem is UI lets users do a lo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration