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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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Length of object

The limit on the length of object. This is the list of length TWSD Object LengthJOB 40login 47workstation 16jobstream 16resource 8user 47calendar 8vartable 80varname 16workstation class 16workload application template 80RunCycle group 40
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

sort of job into a jobstream on DWC

Hi When you define jobs into DWC they are always presented into the order you define them and when you want to reorganize them into a logical order or sort the job by name or by any field you cannot.
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

The customer would like to have better support when identifying the outlying metric in a widget. Some ideas:* Sort the item in the tooltip according to the values* Only show items in the tooltip which have values* Show the whole legend as a table ...
almost 4 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Report for All Types of Failed Jobs

We would like an option in the IWS reporting tool to display failed jobs (ex: jobs that fail because there are no resources available.) If a job creates any kind of error, (failed/abended/etc.), we want to be able to see it in a report to keep tra...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

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

NOI Scope Based Policy Table

US Cellular has requested to make the Scope Based Policy details to be exposed in a database so that they can build a dynamic dashboard to show the alarm reduction metrics.
almost 4 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