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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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Policies relating to a VM should always show under policies for an entity even if not active - ideally with the related schedule.

If I, a customer, attach a policy schedule to a policy (often by accident instead of an execution schedule) it is not easy to find. I am trying to understand the behaviour of a VM, so I got to that VM and look in the policies tab. I THINK that the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Rate of Resize should have default of 3 High.

Make the Default Rate of Resize 3-High. Currently for on-prem the rate of resize has a default value of 2-Medium. This means that for both upsize and downsize recommendations – the action suggested is only 25% of the way to the optimal desired state.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Node 5 Delivered

Containerised distributed Dynamic Agent support for Remote Gateways

Installations of IWS/d 9.X & 10.1 in a virtualised or physcal infrastructure currently supports remote GW for Dynamic Agents (see link below). Containerised Dynamic agents do not support this configuration as the GW is hard coded to localhost....
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

ITNM DB2 password change without domain restart

Need a method of changing the DB2 password without having to restart ITNM to take effect.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

TSAMP support for z15 and zVM environment

SCORE RPQ with TSAMP has been rejected with the reason "SAMP has not been verified on z15 series and for this exact configuration, if there is a business need, we can look for qualifying this in future. ".Customer already has z15 and system instal...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 1 Delivered

TSAMP support for zVM on z15 and Cisco UCS environment

CASE#TS005128923 1) We conducted a storage system configuration assessment within IBM, and found their TSA was listed as related software. The HW configuration included z15 (zLinux), Cisco UCS (IA server). However TSAMP Offering Manager, also resp...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 1 Delivered

Event Viewer Usability : Around Right Click [2 items, more details in the description]

Issue 1: Right click fails to select event first, requiring user to left click then right click [right click should process clicked alarm as selected alarm and show all eligible tools, instead left click and then right click, save 1 click or actio...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Delivered

maxdur "event" should write an event to BmEvents.conf log file

While we like the new 9.3 feature of MAXDUR, we want to be able to alert when it hits. With only options of kill or continue, it forces an abend, but that will mislead folks to think the job abended versus got killed. We would like to see a new ev...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Customer (PNC) requests that we create a custom script to get container resize actions data.

Very useful for the capacity team to show the container savings to the application owners.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Delivered