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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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Pure Storage Data Reduction Ratios not being picked up by Turbo. Using the manual Over-provisioning %. Therefore Turbo makes unnecessary Provision Disk Array Recommendations

The customer says Turbo's AI should be picking up data that is available in the PURE Storage system - and should not be requiring that the Storage Capacity Planners be adjusting the Storage Overprovisioned Percentage in the Disk Array Policy. I wi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host they are running on.

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host which each VM is running on. One way to do this is to add the host name column on the "List of Virtual Machines" tab view. It would be nice i...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add kubernetes pod emphemeral storage usage as metric

Hi all, When monitoring critical k8s deployments which have an ephemeral storage limit defined, it is essential to actively keep track on the current usage and get an alert once the limit is nearly reached. It might be possible to get these metric...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Allow Mailman Server to continue processing other servers after a failed server

Please refer to We have 20 servers under the control of a single Mailman server , Which processes the message queue. We had a failure on 1 server , which in turn caused ALL other server messages NOT to be processed. which eventually IWS believed t...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Time data needed at the call details panel

It is not easy to know the starting time and the latency for calls, when the timeline is not shown in the analyzer, i.e., for big traces. My proposal is to show, in the call details panel, at what time the call started and which was its latency. T...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

When DataType detects a DB Type change should show a sign e.g. an exclamation point to indicate the required D.T. refresh

When DataType detects a DB Type change and updates the data in DataType (for instance from Oracle NUM16 to NUMBER) and data in the DataType changed from Integer to Float, it should show an exclamation point to indicate that DataType has detected D...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Correlate events with a change (recorded in SNOW, Remedy) OOTB

US FSM customers are requesting the ability to ingest change data and correlate events in Netcool / CP4WAIOps to that change. There are a variety of ways to represent this in our tools, but BofA / Morgan Stanley in particular are looking for a sta...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ServiceNow Observer Support for Utah version of ServiceNow Cloud.

Current ServiceNow observer doesn't officially support Utah version of the observer. Please add required support for Utah version.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide kerberos support for IWS REST API

Currently the IWS REST API only supports basic authentication (usage of hardcoded user/password combination). We need to implement the REST API using just a userid with no password.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to keep track of "Approve By" in compliance manager

The OUW in configuration manager is created based on the "Execution User" but we need also keep track on who approved the remedial. Now once you delete the items in the remedial queue you no longer know who approved
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration