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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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Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Request to extend the Fixpack download functionality via GetMQFix.jar for ITX and ITCAM Products

TS017232118 We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/s...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Strengthening bus safety policies for clients with regulatory compliance

Customers in industries that are subject to regulatory review may comply with required security controls. This customer currently requires these security controls that are not implemented in OMNIBus: New passwords must not contain a sequence of th...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

[python-sensor] - Instrumentation

Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

Calc Explorer: Detail Export

As a TBM Admin, I’d like to be able to export the Calc Explorer reports underlying data so that I can create custom /granular level detailed views to prioritize & manage the list of model performance enhancements.  I’ll know it’s com...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Add agent support for Solaris Branded zones

FTAs and DAs are supported on Solaris native Global and Local zones, but are not currently supported on Solaris Branded zones.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

DWC - Viewing external dependency graphically from workload designer

It would be useful if the workload designer could show external dependencies between multiple chained jobstreams, to allow a better understanding of the scheduling network. Currently the designer only shows immediate predecessors for jobstreams. E...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

'Disable Stage' Scheduling Function

We like to use the Disable stage function during times when we process consumption feeds and we want to hold staging calculations for one big calculation.  That said we have on occasion forgot to enable the stage calculations before the end o...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release