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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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Synthetics Tests granularity below 1 minute

As a customer, I want to ensure that my endpoints are available using Synthetics. Also, as a customer, I would like to have several measurements per minute to exclude temporary connectivity problems. A workaround would be to set up multiple tests ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

alert when value has not changed

There are use cases where a device is malfunctioning or misreporting data which helps us determine there is a issue with the device. A symptom we would see is a device reporting the same number for minutes to hours where its normally a value/numbe...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

'Current Transfers' need to be searchable with full transfer ID

Currently the 'Current Transfers' (in the coordination queue manager dashboard, for MQ MFT) are only searchable by last 12 characters as it shows only the last 12 characters (...236505bdbd2d instead of 414d51204d4654352020202020202020c0e1236505bdb...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Possibility to mask GET values based on value of other parameter in websites

We would like to extend the functionality of GET url parameter masking. Currently, it is possible to specify directly name of the key, whose value will be masked. i.e. "/mykey/i" for url /?mykey=XXX will change to /?mykey=<redacted>. However...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

AI software audio to typing - automatic audiobook translator fast performance application

Artificial intelligence audio to typing converter software with translation facility to any language from any language and manual editing facility audiobook to another language audiobook converter fast application with simultaneous printable forma...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

The ability to display reserved space in the Turbonomic UI for initial placement.

There are multiple accounts which I work with which utilize Turbonomic for initial placement of VMs on hosts within their clusters. When these reservations are placed, there is currently no method in the Turbo UI to show the amount of space which ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Ability to load Actuals to IIP via ADM

The functionality did exist, providing the ability to load Actuals to all of the Months via ADM.  Regardless if the Actuals changed or not.  This functionality does not currently exist now.  We would like to request the enhancement,...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Future consideration

When creating a DWC or MDM Database on MS SQL Server, the dbuser is ignored

When I run configureDb.vbs script to crate and populate either the DWC or MDM Database, the dbuser is ignored. cscript configureDb.vbs --work_dir C:/temp --rdbmstype MSSQL --dbname DWCDB --dbuser iwsdbuser --dbpassword ***** --dbhostname whaleshar...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration