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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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Allow for the use of 12:xx to be used in time fields

Since moving to v10.1, we have noticed that the Workload Designer does not allow us to use the "twelve o'clock hour" in any of the time fields. This has been tested by our team at stream level as well as within a run cycle, on the earliest start t...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ITM Windows Agent to use latest VC++ redist version which is currently supported by Microsoft and remove dependency of using VC++ 2008, 2013

Currently ITM Windows OS Agent (NT) is using VC++ 2008 release up to SP5 and VC++ 2013 release from SP6 and above. Both VC++ releases were no longer supported by Microsoft which results in compliance Issue and can also be a security threat. So, we...
7 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 6 Planned for future release

We want to make a group of groups. Currently not possible

There are multiple business cases. ONE: A group of all the groups of prod servers that have been rightsized. And having that one group - enables the Turbonomic Tech Champion to keep an eye on them for performance issues. TWO: Group of Application...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Ability to delete files from Datadrop directly

At the moment we are unable to directly delete files from our DataDrop viewer and need to raise a support ticket. It would be great if this was an option for us to self-serve. Background of our issue: many files get copied into DataDrop each day...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Use "Alias" naming convention to replace "Account Name" for AWS data

For AWS data, use Alias feature to display account name. Customer would like to leverage this Apptio. Is there a way for Apptio to leverage the “alias” name instead of the actual Account name. The AWS portals display the “alias” name itself.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

syslog - 8 level(s) of notification - Customizing the SevOne alert levels for the 8 levels of Syslog Message.

When a syslog message is received by SevOne, we decide what color alert it gets. Currently there are default 8 levels of Syslog. Can those 8 colors be customized per NMS cluster instance? Like make it a whole new setting under "Cluster" > "clus...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Under review

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Add Concert integration

Please add the IBM Concert integration to the automation library. This will allow us to start developing templates for the joint operation between the two products. Here is the Swagger: https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/PRODUCT--concert--ibm-...
about 2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Provide a feature to Disable/Block the tracing of a few specific API calls from the EndUser monitoring

We have started using Instana EUM feature and found that it is tracing and tracking a lot of APIs calls to our feature flag service which we would like to disbale them from Instana. -Ashwin
4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Functionality already exists

Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above

Title: Instana Support for Ceph Quincy (v6) and Above Detail: Instana's current support for monitoring Ceph covers the version Pacific and below. We are using Ceph version Quincy (v6) and we would like Instana to support this version and above. Th...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release