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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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Enhance List Widget to work with touch and mouse on devices with touchscreen

If a List Widget is loaded on any page of DASH, this List Widget will not show any Scrollbar, if opened on a browser on a device with touchscreen. So it is hard to use with mouse then. Other functionality as HTML-Links within SmartText Widget and ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Customer wants a more sophisticated Turbonomic system status page

The customer is concerned with hard outages and soft (data) outages. Wants to see this on one page. - like apple or datadog platform status page. Can we pull the details of the current System Health and System Alert pages into one cohesive page. A...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Add authentication capabilities to eum-acceptor download GeoLite2 DB from sources with authentication.

Dear colleagues, Our customer was trying to associate EUM transaction with geographical location while using self-hosted Instana. We can specify the location of GeoLite2 DB by setting the location in Instana core manifest, but there is no way to s...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Need provide appropriate solution for EUM to collect data using gateway

Dear colleagues, following the Standard Instana deployment instructions in the dashboard to set EUM monitoring doesn't allow to determine IP Address because Instana gateway configuration doesn't have proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; config...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

The policy based alert based on flow conditions also to send out a flow output

This is useful in organisations to rapidly have the information available for i.e top talkers whilst a high utilisation event is being triggered.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

HANA DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs

Display built in Events for DBA Jobs
4 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

User role impactOpViewUser should not allow editing and deleting Operator Views

An explicit 'user' role should not allow 'admin' tasks such as editing and deleting components that are relevant to other users. However, this is the case with the Impact role impactOpViewUser. Users with this role are allowed to edit and delete a...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Use the same "Warning" logic , when we delete a Jobstream Object , IWS will alert the user if the jobstream is used in other Jobstreams as a dependency ogic

If you DELETE a "JOB" object from the IWS database and it is included in other Jobstreams , IWS will alert/Stop the delete command because its cross referenced in other Jobstreams. If we DELETE a "CPU" object , again IWS will alert/Stop the User f...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration