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License consumption split on Windows, Linux, DBs, etc in Turbonomic

It is good to know how many licenses we are spending on each category and will have better understanding of profitable utilization on them
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 4 Delivered

Extra function for auto approve storage "Move volume" actions

we would like to make more use of “auto approve” our storage moves actions But ideally we would like the actions to prioritise certain smaller VMs first and also only move larger VM’s between certain times. An initial thought would be to create a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

In DWC, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results, add exclusion option in monitor workload --> Object type job --> Edit option , Enable dragging option in the monitor workload results to take action on bulk job instances

We need below features in DWC future release, Provide Excel kind of filter option in monitor workload field results. For example, in excel sheet using filter option, we can select or unselect the entries based on our requirement. Actually, we are ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

ITNCM Driver for Cisco Router VG20XXM, VG3X0, VG224 with OS 15*

We need ITNCM driver for these devices: VG224 Cisco router with OS 15*VG20XXM Cisco router with any OSVG3X0 Cisco router with any OS I opened TS001707779, TS001732074 and TS001732098 and the support told me to open an RFE. In attachment the "show ...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Delivered

Add TADDM Ability to try both RSA and DSA keys for SSH logins when both private keys are available on the Discovery Server

The current TADDM behavior during discovery of servers through SSH keys is to attempt to login only with one key (RSA or DSA). If both key exists, only RSA key is used. The enhancement request is to have TADDM try both the RSA and DSA keys during ...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Delivered

Update the twsinst script that comes with fixpack 9.4 so that either the temporary directory is not hardcoded as /tmp

Please update the twsinst script that comes with the fixpack install so that the TWA_TEMP variable is either an option or points to the /tmp instead of /tmp. Filling the temp file system has an impact on other applications on the server and not ju...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered

CNEA - Event Viewer - Maintain the subgroups within the main large group

CNEA - In Event Viewer maintain the subgroups within the main large group after the correlating alarms is complete. Current status - it brings in subgroups, but finally it flattens all alarms within the main parent. We need the subgroups intact, s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Solve cookie caching problem that impacts application monitoring

Since the inception of the BOD we have consistently seen problems with some of the embedded UIs, especially ICAM, because their cookie lifecycles are not aligned with the parent MCM UI. This means users will sometimes get prompted for a login when...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

Would like to define Warning and Critical threshold ranges within a single Event or SmartAlert

If a customer wants to create both a Warning and Critical threshold for the same underlying metric, they create either 2 Smart Alerts or 2 Events. For example, create a Warning Event when CPU usage is between 80% and 90% utilization and Critical E...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered