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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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Chatops should support Webex Messaging (also known as Webex Teams). Currently only Slack and MS-Teams are supported.

WE currently use Webex Messaging as our enterprise collaboration tool. AIOps currently only supports chatops integration from the incident view (and change risk notification) via Slack and MS-Teams, tools we do not currenlty use.
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Extension of the SDN Solution, allow extra metrics to be gathered

When the APIC systems have optical SFP modules, the metrics specifically for DOM are not available within the SDN solution today. To include these metrics, currently a custom universal collector was created to gather the DOM stats from these optic...
5 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Large resource statuses to load a small subset of status event and allow user to page between them to improve performance. So if a resource has more than 30 (user configurable) statuses against it, it would load the first 30 and provide an option to page between additional pages containing the next 30 etc.

Currently if a resource has lots of statuses against them then opening the status view can sit there for ages before loading or giving up and throwing an error. By limiting the number shown and allowing the user to step through additional status r...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provision to export the topology Data into Excel from Topology Viewer page.

Topology Viewer ASM page has options to export the topology to PNG, SVG Format. Need an option to export the topology to Excel.
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Extend Topology Manager to be able to run Remote Observers for network discovery

With the introduction of Net-Disco and App-Disco plug-ins in ASM v1.1.8 (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9LQB_1.1.8/ProductOverview/r_asm_whatsnew.html#r_asm_whatsnew) , its not possible to run all components on single host as it wou...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Handling autogenerated columns such as .Count

When transferring data from one environment to another via Datalink - table to table, the autogenerated columns (ex: ".Count") are also transferred.  This generates an error that can't be eliminated as it would not be displayed in the Import ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

User-friendly feature needed: GUI-based preexisting setup/config clone to create new

AS-IS: each new custom setup (incl. observer job config, policy, etc.) we have to manual enter all para one by one. Desired TO-BE: ================= Target use case (NOT limit to, but same principle cross over): #1. Define > Integration (Incl. ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Prevent action failures when executing RDS scaling actions for instances running deprecated versions

This prevents Turbo from making recommendations that cannot be executed and makes automating such actions easier. My idea is to discover the DB version (This is already done today) and generate the current scaling recommendations with a pre-requis...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Planned for future release

Automatic infrastructure correlation update when HA service ip changed

Basically, infrastructure correlation works good. However, we have faced a case that the correlation is unlinked. We suspect that the phenomenon occurred when a take-over of HA (high availability) happened. In our case, we use Db2 HADR and TSA (Ti...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Analytics Calls value link

Hi Would be nice if you could take values from the calls details page and make it an variable in a link to another site. The use case is customer is using OTEL and we get "db.sqlid" value klsdjf9034r. The customer is requesting if we could have a ...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration