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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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Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

business benefit should appear in ServiceNow Change

The biggest challenge with VM Sizing is getting App Team buy-in. With ServiceNow Orchestration - the app team will receive an approval for a CR in ServiceNow. Right now there is NO BUSINESS BENEFIT listed in this change. Why would they approve? In...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Ability to export logging of all configuration changes for a period of at least 12 months

To avoid a deficiency from the IT audit we would need to have a logging of all configuration changes for a period of at least 12 months and preferred for 15 months.
almost 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Provide a way to disable side car action creation

Today, Turbonomic create automatically groups for sidecar workloads and a policy with recommend only actions. Since Turbonomic can't apply those changes, it's just informational. The problem is customer has thousands of actions that is polluting t...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter

Title: Capturing IMS Calls with WM EntireX Adapter Detail: We want Instana to capture IMS calls which are maded from client side with WM EntireX Adapter. We would like that client adapter to be supported from version 10.7.0.21.1826 and above.
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Allow Turbonomic be aware of edge cases and scale virtual machines to instance types that are available in the AZ

Generally, all the instance types are available within the entire region which we take into consideration but in some edge cases AWS does not make them available in a particular AZ within that region. We do not track availability within a particul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Add last day of month as variable like {DD}

I want the ability to run a datalink connector on the first of the month to retrieve data from the previous month, with the added capability to have {DD} variable specified as the last day of the last month. For example in a REST connector connect...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic to give recommendations for Azure VM Scale Sets.

A lot of corporations have Azure VM Scale Sets which are improperly configured. They are set to scale OUT but not IN. And there is a lot of waste. Would love it if VM Scale Sets are treated differently and recommendations given - e..g SCALE IN for...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

IWS auditing for Login events (DWC, conman, composer) and changes to configuration and security files

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over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Jobtype Job Stream Submission flag optional

Verify the possibility of Disable and make selection of the Verify Host - Job type Job Stream Submission flag optional. We currently have customers using version 9.4 and have set this option which is default when creating new jobs. From version 10...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration