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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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if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Request for adding Outgoing connection for PagerDuty with AI Manager in Data And Tool integration

In order to receive the alerts to PagerDuty, we are looking for some outgoing connection to be added to AI Manager in Data And Tool Integration which will help SREs in our team to monitor all alerts coming from AI Manager of CP4WAIOps from PagerDu...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

We should have the option of adding host dns alias in the resources managed by custom resource "manageservice"

Its useful because sometimes, you want to add the dns alias locally instead of adding a global alias or override an existing dns alias. This is supported by openshift but its restricted in this case because of custom resource. (Infrastructure auto...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Display deployment markers in Event views

Smart Alerts with adaptive thresholds is a nice feature to detect anomalies. Very often these anomalies are triggered by a change in the system (for example a deployment). Many graphs in Instana display the deployment markers for this reason, but ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Allow RACF surrogate authority to be used in the configureDb.sh script to define the DB2 database for a DWC running on z/OS

As discussed in case TS012239863, when defining a DB2 for z/OS database it is not necessary to run the SQL (whether it is run as batch job, as a BPXBATCH invocation of a script, or directly as a script under OMVS) under the userid that has SYSADM ...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

use of generic caracters in SDOM ACL and ROLES definitions

To help selecting an defining objects. For now just @ is allowed,we need the use of a single caractere selection possibility, like for jobs or schedules selection
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

just retain the name of original schedule in the schedule userjobs

If the schedule is not in carryfroward, its diffciult to retrieve original schedule in the userjobs schedule
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Need multi baseline - multi variate support for ICAM in PI

We plan to use ICAM as a replacement for Tivoli ITM. We are using already Predictive Insight and need full multi variate support in PI for multiple baseline support in PI. I have opened in PI but i dont know if i need another one for ICAM.
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Instana: Ability to disable a micrometer metric (EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues)

Currently in Instana you have the ability to either enable or disable the entire micrometer collection.You don't have the ability to disable one or some of its metrics. The EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues when dealing wit...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Trigger alerts depending on several events linked with an AND

We currently use offline events in a static JBoss environment to trigger an incident at the control centre. Unfortunately, agent updates, for example, lead to the agents being switched offline in extreme cases. It would be very helpful if offline ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 3 Is a defect