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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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Add the Friendly Region Name in workload planning

currently in the workload plannig there is only the region coding (e.g. eu-south1) and not the friendly name (e.g. Milan) for both clouds. Having the friendly name present would simplify the region search even for the inexperienced and speed up th...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Under review

Capability to draw the Layered topology

From stc(Telco) perspective, we need to have a layered topology plotting capability. For example, they want to see the Layer-1, 2 & 3 topology nodes in the begining, then they want the logical connectivity getting super imposed on top of this....
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page

Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page. Currently this is not the case and you have to go 3-4 clicks to reach the GIS Map view, either using a topology dashboard or viewer or from an alarm event viewer page.
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Turbonomic | Added support for Parquet format in the CUR report.

Some customers have already exported their cost reports, but instead of using gzip - text/csv, they are using Parquet, which is generally more efficient. In such cases, they have to recreate the reports, so it would be helpful if Parquet format co...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Column width settings fixed

We would like to have the column width of the different attributes in a list view be fixed. Right now you always have to set the column sizes over and over again every time you go back to a list view. This is super annoying.
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Color Coding ability

We need ability to apply color coding to visual table report based on values in its rows for example, if custom field value is true we want to see row in green and when false - in red
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review

Send Anomaly Detection Alerts to Account Owners

Our internal Cloud Optimization team would like to use the Anomaly Detection API to send alerts to the owners of accounts that have an anomaly. As of right now you can only set up Anomaly Subscriptions for the API key you are working under. This e...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review