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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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Cloud scaling actions in AWS should also include instance-level network performance metrics to assure performance after being executed

The following link (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/amazon-ec2-instance-level-network-performance-metrics-uncover-new-insights/) was provided by our cloud ops team when discussions were held regarding the validity of T...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Functionality to send email notifications when maintenance window is setup

Need to have the Functionality to send email notifications when a maintenance window is setup, goes active and when maintenance window ends. The email should contain who setup the maintenance window, window start time/end time, all CI's in mainten...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow flash time for EventViewer to be configured

The below properties in the <user>.nova files are applicable to AEL only ael_user_properties_flash_time:400 ael_user_properties_flash_brightness:0 ael_user_properties_flash_enabled:true ael_user_properties_notify_flash_icon:true The Event Vi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Gateway for Message Bus - support for custom omnibus tables

The gateway for messagebus should allow any (custom) table of the objectserver to be used as datasource for reader component, not just alerts.status
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Increase Maximum Byte Constraint on "Node" (Currently 51 bytes)

Node name currently has a maximum byte size of 51 chars. We have nodes with FQDN's source AWS that require 75 chars. We request that node name be increased to some value at or exceeding 128 bytes to facilitate long node values in the future. Appli...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ProcessID missing in joblogs for windows processes

CASE ID - TS003942595During investigations to identify long running issues of a job, we found that Windows ProcessID is not supplied back to the Job Log, Yet for Linux/Unix processes the ID is provided. This makes tracing the process thats causing...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to aggregate the async latency number collected from traces

We would like to be able to aggregate the async latency number that already exists in the UI for traces. Ideally we would want to create alerts on outlying numbers. This would be very useful to understand whether full user journeys have degraded i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

IWS/About specification change of message notification from MDM

User has troubled job management due to mailman down of Domain Manager. Case No : TS001488604.As a result of the analysis, the cause was found to be an overflow of the Domain Manager message file (. Msg).While stopping some FTAs ​​during periodic ...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Custom job flags

Have the ability to put user made flags against jobs on any workastation, in any job stream to be able to monitor these jobs in DWC filtering against this flag. Like the CRITICAL flag, but without prioritisation.
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration