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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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Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
9 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Add support for HPE 3Par successor HPE Primera

Add support for HPE 3Par successor HPE Primera, as this is the new storage from HPE and companies are moving away from 3Par to Primera now.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Support oAuth for integration with 3rd party platforms

Unlike Basic Auth, OAuth doesn't provide the weakness in sharing password data. oAuth uses authorisation tokens to verify an identity. Many vendors that provide platform access, provide an optional or mandatory mechanism of API access. Versa for e...
2 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Future consideration

Ideas for more consumable actions

After initial deployment, it may take many Turbonomic actions to bring the existing environment to a more desired state. As a new user to Turbonomic it can be hard to digest and consume those actions and understand where to start. Some ideas to he...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Support for VMware vCenter V8 discovery

Support for the discovery of the VMware vCenter V8 is needed.
10 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Allow navigation to groups directly from the groups management page

As a user while I am managing groups I would like the ability to navigate to a group so that I don't have to click Search->Groups->Type the Group name->Then select the group
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Extension of the SDN Solution, allow extra metrics to be gathered

When the APIC systems have optical SFP modules, the metrics specifically for DOM are not available within the SDN solution today. To include these metrics, currently a custom universal collector was created to gather the DOM stats from these optic...
5 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Modelled Reports

As TBMA a lot of our time is consumed explaining to  our stakeholders via various means- reports, ppt slides, endless meetings, comms, diagrams how cost flows from the bottom of the model ie cost source through all hierarchies to the Service ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

See Time Dimensions vertically along with other dimensions and values in a table

I create reports in TBM and would like to be able to build out reports with a Months column, a YearToDate metric column, and any additional dimensions and metrics.  To display the monthly values vertically, we would need the capability of tre...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration