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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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improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Please add Traditional Chinese support in Similar tickets

We have several AIOps customers in Taiwan, their tickets content are Traditional Chinese, but AIOps still doesn't support Traditional Chinese, so the AIOps can't help in this ticket resolution area, customer complains very mcuh and ask IBM to supp...
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

"Last Uploaded" date

As per the design behaviour, the "Upload" step shows upload times in GMT-7:00 (PST) timezone and not in the Customers local timezone (see attached screenshot). This is in our opinion misleading and confusing. Apptio is requested to change this so ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Under review

Integration of Unit Testing for zCentric Agent Plugin Development

To make the plugin development process for the zCentric Agent more efficient and error-free, it is proposed to extend the existing framework by adding the ability for developers to create unit tests that simulate the agent's behavior. This would a...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

customize the email font or attach an image using email notification connector

customize the email font or attach an image using email notification connector
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Exclude Rightsizing Recommendations if current workload is on latest generation

Currently rightsizing recommendations are providing recs that contain older generation (but are "current generation") than the current instance. For example, current instance is running on r7g but rightsizing is recommending r6g.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Rightsizing for ECS workloads

Rightsizing support for ECS.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Under review