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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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Extension of the SDN Solution, allow extra metrics to be gathered

When the APIC systems have optical SFP modules, the metrics specifically for DOM are not available within the SDN solution today. To include these metrics, currently a custom universal collector was created to gather the DOM stats from these optic...
27 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add Resources in Join Dependencies - IWA 10.1

Hello We are using IWA 10.1 and want to create JST using more than 40 resources. The composer add command returns the message AWSJOM138E The dependencies defined for job or job stream "******GVC010VERA" are incorrect because they would give a tota...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enable users to be configured with a "Read Only" Role

With the extension of capabilities in AIOps to include a more "business" concepts such as "Incidents" there are a lot more users who would benefit from having a realtime view. This will enable the customer to extend the visibility of business impa...
28 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

We are requesting that the DWC time field support the more conventional 12:00 - 12:59 AM/PM and/or 24 hour clock value.

An inconsistency was discovered in the DWC Workload Designer that impacts time fields, such as Earliest Start, Latest Start, Deadline, etc. We are unable to specify any value between 12:01 and 12:59, whether AM or PM. Specifying 12:00 is allowed. ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

IWS : Undo cancel pending operation

Once a cancel pending operation is executed, there is no way to undo this action.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Update TADDM HACMP Sensor to be able to discover HACMP versions 7.2+ on AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above..

Currently deployed AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above use HACMP v7.2+. The HACMP sensor in FP11 only supports version 7.1 according to TADDM documentation and is not getting triggered when HACMP version 7.2+ is running on the server.
6 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration