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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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Network Error Logging

Modern browsers support network error logging - which is basically the possibilty to sent network issues to a distinct system. The system is to be defined via a header. This allows gathering data about connectivity issues - which is otherwise not ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future 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 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Cross-domain RCA is needed

One of three biggest telecom operator in Russia is in need of cross-domain RCA for their IBM Network Management IP system. Due to known limitation for number of elements in the ITNM domain, telecom operators have no other option, but to split netw...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 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

In the Merge Cluster Plan the wizard does not take the user to the storage actions, desired state, or desired state diameter settings.

When running the the Merge Cluster Plan the wizard doesn't take the user through the options to configure the storage actions, desired sate, and the desired state diameter settings. In other plan configurations these configurations are present in ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

In the Merge Cluster Plan the cluster name should be displayed in the actions, output, and exports.

When using the Merge Cluster Plan only the host name is present in the actions, output, and exports. It would be nice if the cluster name were present in the actions, output, and exports for easy readability and understanding of the data.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 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

Dependencies/Flow tab Optimization to view data for a week

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down . Ability to show...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration