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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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Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

SevOne NPM should support netflow connection over TCP.

TCP is more secure and more reliable than UDP. As such, SevOne NPM should be able to support incoming netflow traffic over TCP in order to stay up to date with standards and customer expectations.
about 11 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Submitted

Allow fields customisation on Events dashboard for sorting

Dear colleagues, our customer is actively using Events dashboard and would like to be able to sort events by severity of the events in a list. Please consider implementing the feature of customising fields and sorting by them. Thank you
about 13 hours ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Ability to Nest Contracts through Parent Child Contract Relationship

Business Need: We need the ability to nest contracts within Apptio Planning Contracts. We are looking for the ability to have a parent contract line showing the contract date for the enterprise and then the child entries split out by our divisions...
about 15 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Freeze Environment and Settings When Scrolling Down

When in a BI report and scrolling down to various visualizations you lose the Environment box, along with the Current View box. Need that to stay in place/be visible when scrolling down.
about 15 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Retain user filters and formatting when production refreshes

When Production updates, filters, column pickers etc are rest to default. This is resulted in a bad experience for our users, they lose the focus on the data they were analyzing. In Demand Planning we collect data from thousands of users and this ...
about 16 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add support to simulate effect of changes in the commitment portfolio an Turbonomic actions for workload optimization

The current plan feature supports to select the existing RIs that shall be considered when running the plan. Please add the capability to also be able to simulate the effect on Turbonomic actions for workload optimization for the following scenari...
about 17 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

Option to enable anomaly alert with default setting for all users

In our large organization, it is difficult to coordinate with all cloudability users and ask them to subscribe for cost and budget anomaly alerts. Since Finops is everyone's resposibility, we should have option to enable the alerts as default opti...
about 19 hours ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
about 20 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted