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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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Enable VM group creation by filtering on VMware Horizon Persistence state (Persistent vs Non-Persistent VM)

Being able to create Turbonomic groups based on whether a VM is a Persistent or Non-Persistent VDI instance would allow Turbo automation to be managed based on the instance type.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Planned for future release

MFT file transfers should report successful or failed

When a MFT file transfer has completed, the Instana dashboards does not report whether it was successful or failed; it is only reported 'Completed' by the coordination queue manager and the file transfer dashboards. However, when an event fires fo...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Make "In Error Predecessors" column clickable/to drill through the jobs via Monitor Critical Jobs in Dynamic Workload Console

Monitor Critical Jobs in DWC just shows the number of abend predecessor jobs in "In Error Predecessors" column. It will be better if the column is made clickable similar to "Not Completed Predecessors" so the errored predecessor jobs can be viewed...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Add ability to set std_table_dot_walk parameter in servicenow-observer job UI

When discovering resources using the servicenow-observer for large CI tables an error is flagged up regarding pagination and suggestion in the manual is to set std_table_dot_walk=false via swagger. Now the manual is pretty poor when it comes to ho...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Add ICMP and SNMP polling to Netdisco Observers

When ASM/Topology Manager is able to discover network and device structures via its Network Discovery Observers, why shouldn't it use this knowledge for performing healthcheck via ICMP and SNMP on this devices as well?
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

TADDM DB2 sensor enahancement

DB2 sensor executes db2find.sh during discovery that uses list db directory command to find out the Databases. This command lists the contents of the system database directory. In the command output there is a "Directory entry type" showing the lo...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Allow the user to select the language on DWC

We usually set our browsers to use Portuguese language, but for DWC, and other specialist IT tools, we prefer to use the English language. Until version 9.4 it was possible to set the "Default Locale" on "Console Properties" screen to "en", so DWC...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Ability to see trough API the history of removed peers & HSA

Request is ability to see the information through API of HSA and Peers that were removed successfully previously. And in case of re-adding a repaved host, erase that information.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to remove and then re-add a virtual appliance to an NMS cluster without re-imaging

Request is ability to remove and then re-add a virtual appliance to an NMS cluster without re-imaging to we do not loose server capacity when testing, since it is a painful process for us to get this.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release