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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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Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
4 days ago in Instana / Go 0 Submitted

Log Anomaly Detection Alerts need improvement

The alerts generated by Log Anomaly Detection don't give an indication as to what the issue is. The Alert Summary only contains the template name. The Summary should be more user friendly..something like "log message xxxxxxx occurred x times" it t...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 0 Under review

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Turbonomic | Added support for Parquet format in the CUR report.

Some customers have already exported their cost reports, but instead of using gzip - text/csv, they are using Parquet, which is generally more efficient. In such cases, they have to recreate the reports, so it would be helpful if Parquet format co...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

GCP Workflow Plugin: Enable Custom Project ID for Execution

We request the implementation of a new feature in the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) that allows users to explicitly specify a Google Cloud Project ID for workflow execution. Currently, it appears that ...
about 12 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

GCP Workflow Plugin: Allow Specifying Different Billing/Quota Project

Currently, the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) appears to limit workflow execution to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project associated with the Service Account specified in the IWS connection definitio...
about 12 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Provide ability to surface all CUR columns in Cloudability's reporting

Many of our customers have custom use cases that require more fields in the CUR than Cloudability provides. An example is the Legal Entity field. Surfacing Legal Entity would enable better visibility into the 3rd party vendor that is being purchas...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Make project names editable

Users created a project name but then want to change the name or remove it and that functionality is not available.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted