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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 the use of Google Maps for Topology Resource Map

The customer would like to use Google Maps rather than OpenStreetMap for the Resource Map https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.6.1?topic=elements-configuring-advanced-settings#resource_map
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow faceted search for items within workflows

One enhancement I would have loved to have is a faceted search for object, arrays, block names, etc... for within a single workflow (being edited) and accross workflows.
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Under review

Log window output enhancements

Would find it very convenient to be able to close all non-executing (stopped) log tabs with one button. Right now I have to click many times to close all the older tabs. e.g., "close all"
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Add conditional breakpoints (eval functions)

Would be good to add possibility for conditional breakpoints, where you say "stop here if x == false". Perhaps a breakpoint block with an eval function that is only enabled when debug. Perhaps looking like an "if block". The "breakpoint" block wou...
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Under review

Improve try catch to reduce number of required blocks.

Currenty when using try/catch blocks, you almost always need 4 blocks. "Try"... "block to execute" ... "catch" ... "if block to check exception". I think the improvement might be to merge the catch/if by making the catch block have fields to simul...
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Under review

Allow step into when debugging workflow

Currenty when debugging workflows, you can resume, start over, stop and step. The possibility for stepping into another function is missing. This feature is key to allow workflow reuse.
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Under review

Create an Account level policy entity type

When accounts have many different resource entity types, it's very cumbersome to create a generic policy for half a dozen resource types across dozens of accounts. If there was an Account policy type, high-level settings such as Action Generation:...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Enable filtering by role to work when verifying console integration

In the NOI hybrid deployment, NOI configures automatically some console integrations in WebGUI.In the current design, the console integrations are verified at user login, even if the role settings prevent the login user from accessing those consol...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

View the JVM DB Connection Pool and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the idle DB Connection is below 10%)

I would like to monitor the Connection Pool that connects to the DB in a general JVM. I would also like to request that you add a function that can monitor the connection to the DB in JVM monitoring.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Under review

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review