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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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dns name configurable

Instana standard editon need DNS entries with subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing All entries points to the same ip. We want to have it configurable for free for example to remove the subdo...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Request to extend the Fixpack download functionality via GetMQFix.jar for ITX and ITCAM Products

TS017232118 We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/s...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Strengthening bus safety policies for clients with regulatory compliance

Customers in industries that are subject to regulatory review may comply with required security controls. This customer currently requires these security controls that are not implemented in OMNIBus: New passwords must not contain a sequence of th...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Pricing adjustments for all clouds

Currently there is a way to input a pricing adjustment for AWS services but not Azure or GCP. It's possible this info is derived another way but the configuration UI is inconsistent.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Create an option for latest gen storage or instance types

Turbonomic could be able to help assist in lifecycle management activities by suggesting only newer (assuming less expensive) hardware types. This avoids having to update hundreds of policies where explicit selections were previously made. Example...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Rate of Resize without Limitation

Hello, we faced a strange problem where a VM with 5% utilization in the 95th percentile had no action. After investigation with the Support we came to the conclusion that it is like this because Turbonomic would scale down the VM below the Applica...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Under review

Instana needs to support AutoTrace for OpenResty pod

Instana declares the support tracing for 3scale's OpenResty container. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-nginx#other-supported-information But its support is limited for the manual instrumentat...
8 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Planned for future release

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration