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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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Search in Event viewer under 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' doesn't search for the element if within correlated group

When we search in the Event viewer 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' view, the search doesn't work. If the element is part of a correlated group, search doesn't work to identify the group or element. We have to then default the view and search on the flat vie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Exclude target category that has no associated rows from the Target Type Filter

In Target Configuration page, it seems we have all target categories included in the target type filter. For Azure, the target type shall be Azure Service Principal, or Azure Subscription. So when selecting Azure, there is no result returned. Disc...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Dynamic navigation option from a table - links to specific reports depending on table row contents

Looking for a way of providing user dynamic and tailorable navigation to specific use case reports from a single source.  In this case to get to use cases for specific Service Names in the service taxonomy - potentially a report per Service N...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Allow temporary group creation within Plan function of the tool

Many times for running plans, I have to create a VM group here and a host group there. They all end up sitting in the environment indefinitely until I explicitly look for them for cleaning (being able to look for them by "Last Used" or "Last Updat...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Allowing SNMP Trap Alerts to be related to the actual device

In many cases SNMP Trap based are sent by a single SNMP Trap Forwarder. The Genesys Call Center software, NICE Recording Software, and vmWare vCenter are classic examples of this. From a recurring failure point of view, it gives the impression tha...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Add "Carryover data" option for defining custom Data Freshness Rule

As an Admin of TBM Studio, I'd like to define which of my custom Data Freshness Rules will allow for data to carry forward into future periods by adding a [Carryover data] toggle option on the Define New Data Freshness Rule dialog. This will allow...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

way to have TWSINST not start the Agent after it finishes

we like to control where the Agent runs on the AS400 iseries platform
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration