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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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Include Events and Status data in Apptio BI

Current the Events and Status features do not allow you to easily find the data without exporting to excel and this data is not available in BI. It would be good to add features like group and filter to these reports but also to use in the BI reports
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Project field to be mandatory for all tabs

Currently, the project field is only mandatory for the labor activity tab but would like to make this mandatory for all tabs.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
12 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Needs more information

Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Needs more information

Add Object Summary widget to DI that automatically shows all indicator values on separate charts for the selected object.

Makes it easier to see all related indicators and their values at a glance vs. having to manually select each one. Similar to SevOne SURF object summary functionality.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Needs more information

Ability to Drill Down within a dashboard widget

The ability to drill down into data on a widget would be incredibly helpful without understanding the data. For example, one particular District is high, ability to drill down to the accounts within that District to help isolate the cause.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Needs more information

Extract information from the rules generated by the temporal training

Hello,Through the AIOps interface, we can view how a specific temporal rule was generated, including the information about the alerts that were grouped and the frequency at which they were found. However, in a scenario where, for example, tens of ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Needs more information

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
6 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 6 Needs more information

NetApp AFF-A700 support

Telefonica has lot of NetApp AFF-A700 models, which is specifically excluded in the documentation (NetApp target).https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.15.0?topic=targets-netapp
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Needs more information

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Needs more information