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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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The ability to integrate or move files to the secure cloud content management - Box, inc.

Our company uses Box as one of the primary ways to share files. In an effort to help automate report distribution to some of these customers, it would be nice to be able to use IWS to move files to Box. Since we already connect to the necessary se...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide basic entity information in tabular format for VM group scope

As a large enterprise with almost 800 active-active groups consisting of over 6000 VMs, we frequently find ourselves in need of a flat-view pane of basic VM information for all members of any one group. At the least, for example, we'd like to see ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Automatic infrastructure correlation update when HA service ip changed

Basically, infrastructure correlation works good. However, we have faced a case that the correlation is unlinked. We suspect that the phenomenon occurred when a take-over of HA (high availability) happened. In our case, we use Db2 HADR and TSA (Ti...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Action Center Proof-UI: Better explaining reasons for Turbonomic's resource decisions, especially cluster scaling

If Turbonomic generates host provision actions the risk listed in the pending actions widget or in the action center is e.g. named "Clone <host name> on cloned ...". This is not the risk why Turbonomic has decided for a cluster scaling. The ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Enable users to be configured with a "Read Only" Role

With the extension of capabilities in AIOps to include a more "business" concepts such as "Incidents" there are a lot more users who would benefit from having a realtime view. This will enable the customer to extend the visibility of business impa...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

VM Family upgrade to newer version even in case of no underutilization

We were looking if Turbo can provide any recommendation of VM Family upgrade even if there was no underutilization. For e.g when we compared the F series VM family, we could see the V2 version providing faster and cheaper VM of the same core. Whil...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

ELK and Instana Deep Link in Slack is required to make SREs and Developers analyze the incident easier

Due to the difficulty of understanding Alert details in AIOps Console,it can help SREs and Developers to add ELK link and Instana link in the Alert Details in AIOps console to Slack channel as Deep Link. This can make SREs and Developers analyze t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release