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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 to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
30 days ago in Instana / Go 0 Submitted

add cluster mode enabled redis trace to redis sensor for rails application

support case Case number TS019348227
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Provide access to a sustainability emissions metric in KGCO2e

the existing emissions metric is in MTCO2e. In addition, data is shown in Apptio BI to a max of 2 decimal places. As the unit is large and the decimal precision is just 2 d.p. this means that for a lot of use cases emissions show as zero when they...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Allow users to select only columns required from exports and enable that selection to be static

We export the data and import/upload into power bi models to enable efficient trending of opportunities. When exporting from Rightsizing you only have the option to export all data, we want users to have the option of just exporting the data that ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Add Snapshot Launch date

We would be able to see the date when a snapshot has been created and would be able to monitor the existence and cost of a snapshot by filtering on the launch date column. This would enable us to address historic snapshots that are no longer requi...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
3 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Ability to Import/export functionality for Account Groups (Organize) to update them in bulk

With over 400+ account groups in Cldy env, it is difficult to identify which Account groups are tagged with the required group values and which are not. Tried the same using API but not very helpful. The idea here is to have an Export option - whi...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Request to Include Cisco ACI in Turbonomic Integration Support

Dear Turbonomic Product Team, We have received strong interest from one of our enterprise customers in expanding their adoption of IBM Turbonomic across their hybrid infrastructure. However, a key blocker they are facing is the lack of native inte...

Self-Service capability to Postpone Scheduled Parking Shutdown

Introduce a self-service feature similar to Azure’s "Auto-shutdown" mechanism. Before a scheduled VM parking event, send an email notification to the designated VM owner. This email should offer the option to postpone the shutdown by 1 hour, 2 hou...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
13 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted