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Add imported groups to the Groups management page

Idea: Add a new section to the Settings|Groups management page that shows imported groups and their origin Currently, when you navigate to Settings|Groups, you do not see groups that have been imported from vCenter or other targets. The imported ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add VMWare Cluster to TADDM Integration Plugin (for ServiceNow)

We require the TADDM Integration ServiceNow Plugin to be able to send VMWare Clustering CI and relationship data to the appropriate cmdb_ci_vmware_cluster table (and also associated VMWare cluster resource tables) in ServiceNow.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Data source encryption with AES

The current AES Encryption implementation in OMNIbus and WebGUI only allows passwords up to 30 characters long whether encrypted or un-encrypted. If you encrypt a password longer than 16 chars using ncw_aes_crypt script, the encrypted string becom...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

IWS agents to be cluster aware

IWS agents are not cluster aware and as such are not supported in environments that are clustered and as such not supported. We are running FTA agents on RHEL pacemaker clusters using nfs but are also assessing other remote file system solutions e...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Make the magnifier icon mean zoom

In any graph with a time axis, if you select a time range on the graph, there is a magnifier button which sends you to analytics and a ... menu with a clock button which zooms to the time range. I suggest you change this to have the magnifier icon...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to mask GET values based on value of other parameter in websites

We would like to extend the functionality of GET url parameter masking. Currently, it is possible to specify directly name of the key, whose value will be masked. i.e. "/mykey/i" for url /?mykey=XXX will change to /?mykey=<redacted>. However...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Session timeout for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

From security/compliance perspective, there is a need for enforcing session timeouts for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator & Event List.In case of any inactivity of user-admin logged into Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator, a session/inactivity timeout...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 5 Not under consideration

User option to cleanup old images following the upgrade process.

When performing an upgrade of Turbonomic the old images are just left in the /var directory. Nexttime when a user goes to upgrade and they run the upgrade-precheck.sh script, the /var directory is often over the 70% limit and the user must manuall...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Group nodes of a redis cluster in service view

We're using redis-cluster to run redundant scaleable redis services. However calls traced by java instrumentation are not mapped to a redis-cluster but to a specific redis instance. This means that redis calls for a specific redis cluster are dist...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Start / StopCommand is not issued to the resources with Unknown state, during start / stop of resource group or takeover.

"StartCommand / StopCommand is not issued to the resources with Unknown state, during starting / stopping of resource group or takeover" This request comes from the PMR - 04264,616,760The request is for a change to issue StartCommand / StopCommand...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration