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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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 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...
about 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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Add Disk & IOP usage to Infrastructure Comparison Table for hosts

It'd be useful to be able to have a view of all the nodes in an environment or K8s cluster that can be sorted by disk volume or IOP pressure. Infrastructure/Application Support/SRE would benefit. I imagine it working by being it's own column that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Mesaage bus probe support Authetication other than basic

Message bus should support other authentcation like okta other than just basic authentication . We currently have message bus probe to which external system posts alarm to it via webhook . However the message bus probe only accepts basic authetica...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for Db2 Connect

Transaction flow where we are accessing Db2 for z/OS data with Db2 Connect support is needed.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

HA proxy routes with SPK ingress needs to be configured - Need enhancement from product

Platform configures OpenShift Routes which is prohibited in Customer environment (RedHat recommendation). HA proxy routes with SPK ingress needs to be configured - Need enhancement from product
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Dual stack support should be available for AIOPS 4.4.1

Dual stack support should be supported for AIOPS 4.4.1
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AIOps 4.4.1 should support Operator and Operand to be in different namespaces

Single Namespace install –The AIOPS 4.4.1 platform does not allow the Operator and Operand to exist in separate namespaces. inturn causing limitation of having Only one instance of AIOps instance in the cluster.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Instana UI - show approximation level for on sampled data

show approximation level (100%, 10%, 1%) and samping logic in-a-nutshell in Analytic View while sampling is active
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration