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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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Upgrading the packages to newer releases

Current Turbo versions for these packages: 1.) Kafka 3.6.1 2.) Consul v1.16.3 3.) Rsyslog 8.2310.0-4.el9 4.) Nginx 1.20.1.14.el9 5.) Zookeeper 3.8.4 Latest versions: 1.) Kafka 3.8.0 2.) Consul 1.19.1 3.) Rsyslog 8.2406.0 4.) nginx 1.27.0 5.) Zooke...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3

Persona based get started experience that focuses on workflows to complete users first tasks in order to realize the value and gain confidence quickly.

Specific user use cases addressed so that they can get started quickly around workflows that are most important to them, reducing time to value.
3 months ago in Concert 0 Under review

Integrate certificate import / update ability in to UI

It would be useful to be able to upload new certificates for update purposes when they expire, vs having to go through a multi step process in the CLI
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Azure Cosmo DB Storage

Instana does not analyze the behavior of Azure Cosmo DB Storage, it is necessary to be able to detect if there is a storage problem and alert about this.
6 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Data Insight - Support multiple owners for Reports RBAC

Currently Reports RBAC includes Public and RO permission (across all users.) A business issue arises when a Public RO (Production) Report needs to be modified while the (single) Owner is not available. This forces an admin user to manually make a ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Composer cmd to display Locked objects in the DB

We have a need for a new composer command that displays all objects in "Locked" status in the DB. Would like to have this ability for all the different type of objects that can get Locked in the DB. Jobs, Jobstreams, Resources, Variable Tables, Ca...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

While WebSphere supports MFA redirection but WebGUI is not tested nor supported

Currently WAS Security configurations (such as authentication) are strictly configured at the WebSphere level. From our discussion with our WAS team we understand now that for MFA, Websphere would only need to be configured to redirect to either a...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support Helm as installation Method for instana operator

We are using the instana-operator to setup and maintain instana. For all of our other components we are using Flux to sync our Git Repository to our Cluster. For most of our Components we are using helm to install them to our cluster. Instana cure...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6