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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 cannot capture the IMS JDBC

Instana cannot capture the IMS JDBC calls by default if application uses this jar file.IMS uses two APIs for accessing the IMS data; the first one is JDBC 4.0 spec, and the second is the DL/I API. The IMS team confirms that JDBC implementation is ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

DB2 Log_space percentage monitoring.

In this use case the customer Julie Yates wants to monitor log_space from her DB2 servers based on percentage. Since her team has multiple DB2 servers and the log_space may differ from one database to another, the ideal monitoring for this metric ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Delivered

Improve Redisson support for Java apps

Improve Redisson support for Java apps. By Github stars, Redisson is the most popular redis client for Java apps (amongst others like Lettuce and Jedis). However, Instana stopped supporting Redisson some time ago: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/insta...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

When the rate of resize is NOT 3 – show the desired end state. – let it be clear that it will take more steps to get to desired state.

If a customer has a Rate of Resize set to 2-Medium then Turbonomic will create an action to take it 25% of the way to the optimal value. And this jump (let’s say 32GB –> 34 GB memory) appears in the Action and Details. The optimal value is 8GB ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

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

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

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

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