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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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Use optman parameter for progressive switchplan instead of modify script

Hello, Currently, there is two options to manage stop agent progression in switchplan : conman stop @!/@/@ \; wait \; noaskconman stop @!/@/@ ; progressive This two lines are in switchplan script in IWS install directory, one is commented the othe...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

User role impactOpViewUser should not allow editing and deleting Operator Views

An explicit 'user' role should not allow 'admin' tasks such as editing and deleting components that are relevant to other users. However, this is the case with the Impact role impactOpViewUser. Users with this role are allowed to edit and delete a...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Regarding the price display for "Aurora Standard" and "Aurora I/O-Optimized"

Aurora has multiple prices even for the same instance type. However, in the current Turbonomic UI, it's unclear which price is being displayed. Is it possible to make this clear? ------------------------------------------------------------ https:/...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Planned for future release

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Play Framework 3.0

We have upgraded to Play Framework 3.0 in our application and now the Instana monitoring no longer shows application metrics. We are aware that the supported Frameworks list only shows support up to Play 2.8: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-ob...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work as it refers to the same URL. This is the case in all Turbo installations self-hosted and SaaS. Find attached a video outlining ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Remove 1,000 character limitation on the comment field of job stream objects

Prior to IWS v10.1, there was not a 1000 character limit. We often exceed this limit due to taking notes on each change to a stream. This is a business practice which we have used for over 10 years. Ever since the upgrade, we cannot add any more n...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Import AD and UI cert through UI

Today the customer's need to go through editing yaml files on the backend to be able to use secure ldap or importing a cert to to secure the Turbonomic UI or when using secure proxy when targeting cloud targets. All these scenarios need the custom...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Set workflows to run on all workers in a worker pool

It would be useful to be able to set a workflow to be executed on every worker in a worker pool, rather than round robin. This is useful for testing type scenarios when I'd want to run the same test from multiple endpoints and collate the results....
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

schedule alerts or events on certain days and times. For example: an event is executed only on Sunday from 7 am to 7 pm

Have the option to set the time period in which the alert or event should be executed (as an idea perhaps it is the opposite of maintenance windows)
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration