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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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Information on jobs waiting on parallel server limits

Would like a report of jobs waiting on workstation parallel servers and how long they were waiting before starting. This would facilitate analysis of jobstream delays and identifying bottlenecks in the nightly batch.
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future 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 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Provide sample gitops process for Instana synthetics

Instana Synthetics is nodejs code so teams/users should keep it in a github repo for version control, security, compliance, tracking issues for changes etc The gap is automating deploying that code into an Instana account. By providing a sample gi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

The ability to display reserved space in the Turbonomic UI for initial placement.

There are multiple accounts which I work with which utilize Turbonomic for initial placement of VMs on hosts within their clusters. When these reservations are placed, there is currently no method in the Turbo UI to show the amount of space which ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Ability to filter objects listed in the Workspace area on DWC Workload Designer screen

The 'Manage Workload Definitions' page had a Filter option under the working pane that allowed objects within the working list to be located quickly and easily. There does not appear to be a way to filter the objects under the Workspace area in Wo...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Granular resizing automation policies for Cloud Volume and DBs similar to 'Scale for Performance/Savings' settings for Cloud VMs

As a user, I would like the flexibility to specify which actions to automate and which ones should be reviewed and/or taken manually. Similar to the Orchestration and Automation settings for VM, I would like to see a Scale All / Scale for Performa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

zCentric Agent Installation as root

We are trying to remove reliance on root to install our TWS agent. However, after installation, there is the error - the userid used to install TWS can't impersonate to the proid which we used to run the job. We are attempting to mitigate root acc...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

IBM PowerHMC Sensor - Enable Logical Partition "state" metric for custom event

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the LPAR status when it is not running.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Future consideration

sub-interface names should be made avaialble for ceges in flow report even if the sub-interfaces is not discovered in SevOne

As per current architecture for CCSDWAN, interfaces are discovered via API calls to vManage and flow is directly recived from devices. The flow interfaces then are mapped to the interfaces discovered via vManage alowing to chain the flow reports. ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration