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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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Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Under review

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Request to extend the Fixpack download functionality via GetMQFix.jar for ITX and ITCAM Products

TS017232118 We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/s...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Strengthening bus safety policies for clients with regulatory compliance

Customers in industries that are subject to regulatory review may comply with required security controls. This customer currently requires these security controls that are not implemented in OMNIBus: New passwords must not contain a sequence of th...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
11 months ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
8 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Multi node deployment model support for on-premise OSS K8s platform other than OpenShift.

We need official support for on-premise OSS(Open Source Software = open source upstream Kubernetes) K8s deployment model. (K8s CNCF compliant, compatible with AKS/EKS/GKE). *Users are free to deploy it by referring to the steps below, but official...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 2

Provide Store and Forward Feature for Message Bus Gateway

Need the same capability as other Netcool/Omnibus gateways for the Message Bus Gateway to store and forward the event data when the targeted message bus is unavailable.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Build a dedicated topology observer for Solarwinds

Some customers of us (like ENI, ENEL, ...) have Solarwinds as network management tool and it would fine having the related observer to import the topology from it into the WAIOps platform they have installed like we do for other similar tools from...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration