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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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Adjust Self-Managed Turbonomic License to Match Contract Terms

As for self-managed Turbonomic license, currently, even for officially ordered licenses, the license file that customers register contains the following details: Expiration Date: 2122-12-31 Quantity: 999,999,999 This is essentially unlimited and s...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

VMware CPU&Memory Limit value adjusting for optimization

Recently, Turbonomic supported to configure hot-add parameter on VMware VM configuration. Customer hope to do configuration also CPU&Memory Limit value by Turbononmic for optimization in the case Limit value configured on VMware VM (vCenter's ...

NCIM support for MS SQL Server

We are primarily an MS SQL DB shop. We have a lot of support of This DB not very much support of DB2 especially in distributed platforms. Using MS SQL would be extremely beneficial.
10 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Mechanism to prevent the same instance of a widget from repeatedly sending requests when there is no response to a previous request

Currently, DASH triggers multiple GET requests from widgets to the corresponding datasets, driven by an update timer. However, when a request does not receive a response, DASH lacks a mechanism to stop repeated requests from the same widget instan...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ITNM Database finder support for MS SQL database

Currently ITNM database finder only supports DB2 and Oracle. Our inventory database on MS SQL database server. We want to use ITNM database finder method to discover the devices in MS SQL database.
12 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Ability to create e-mail alerts using filters instead of views

Have the ability to set e-mail alerts based off of filters instead of views (see screenshot) Example 1: I only want to receive e-mail alerts for accounts 1 and 2. Instead of selecting a view, I would be able to set a filter to where the e-mail ale...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Adding Single-AZ or Multi-AZ field to the RDS Resource Inventory

Adding the availability zone details in a column of Resource Inventory would give the customer a detailed view on the RDS.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances: We have several accounts with very high Snapshot Costs, and it will help us target where we can save the most if we can tackle the oldest resources first.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
4 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted