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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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RunBook Automation - Scheduling Utility

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it will allow for runbooks to be executed on a timed basis from within the tool Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase the inbuilt...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Identify layouts used by users

Can there be something built to identify public layouts that are used by users, this would mean we can easily remove layouts that are no longer in use. There is no function to identify this currently. 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

IBM Netcool Omnibus Kafka Message Bus Probe to support protobuf message format parsing.

We are currently looking for an option to have an enhancement for Kafka message bus Probe, to be able to parse protobuf message format. We were implementing a new integration with the Nokia FSS system’s Kafka environment, using the Kafka message b...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Add Targets from IT Planning to Apptio BI Reporting

We want to see cost center vs. targets available in the BI tool. Often, our forecast are greater than our annual target. We want to be able to report on risk on a full year basis (when will the target be fully consumed - OPEX & CAPEX). Adding ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

AI Manager to send the story via email.

AI Manager can only send notifications using slack or Microsoft Teams. Some customers does not have ChatOps. Why not to allow AI manager to send them email notification so they can utilize the feature.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

New functionality in Tejas NMS for Event Loss occurred/cleared Notification

Dear team, Section 2.2.3.3 of the attached document refers to Notification for "Event Loss occurred/cleared Notification" Following is the description of functionality: NMS will send the Event Loss occurred/cleared event in case of the following s...
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Defining metrics collection with filter on resources name (or equivalent way to avoid colecting ALL of that metric), as a way to scale the deployment.

We have enabled collection of metric from APM (Dynatrace) and the definition of the connection do not allow to define filtering for the resources we are interested on, so enabling metrics that applied to many resources will cause a big amount of K...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Azure Billing Currency Mismatch Warning

When using Azure Billing to an EA target we faced a problem recently that Turbonomic would fetch data with mismatching currencies. Is it possible for the engineering team to set a sort of check like in the target config for Azure Billing. It would...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration