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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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[OAPI] Split the resource grouping for operator easy access

IBM support Case # TS006039944
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Increase the max observation period for VM Default policy to 120 days rather than the current maximum of 90 days

It would be useful so that we can track more 1 quarter's worth of performance & capacity metrics data. We have application customers with VM's that run hot only once per quarter and would like to see their capacity and performance data coverin...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Provide ability to unschedule previously scheduled work in Maximo Scheduler.

In Maximo Scheduler, there is currently no ability to unschedule work that has already been scheduled. Can you please provide a way to do this? The reason this is so important to me, and my organization is that sometimes we have to deschedule work...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

DASHdb2 connection tipds for db2 on z/os

is it possible to have dash high available through a database on db2 on z/os?
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

ASM ITNM Observer to pull GEO DATA from ncim_ACMEGEOLOCATION for resources

We need Agile Service Manager to pull GEO Data that is available in ITNM by our ITNM Listen and Load Observers to show Location data like address, longitude and latitude.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

DWC Tabs to be named with the name of the Task

1. When a Task is launched from System Status & Health -> All Configured Tasks, the Task is launched in the same tab replacing the Task List. 2. The tab for Task list should stay as a separate tab so that other taks can be launched from it....
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Turbonomic to exclude discovering Cancelled Subscriptions

Discovering Cancelled Subscriptions lead to get the data of resources which are not actually billing and will have false savings reported from the recommendations of its resources.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Analytics with large time span reduce available most recent traces

We found that the result set of traces is dependent on the time window used. Example if you use window of last 5 minutes you will get most recent traces , but if you set the a window of 7 days you won't see most recent traces and latest traces bei...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration