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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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Add 2FA to Delete Vendor Credentials

When there are multiple admins for CLDY, there is a risk of unintentionally deleting a CSP account's credentials with a single click on the delete icon. While alerts are available for such actions, they are mostly reactive and do not prevent the i...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Import Data Mapping from Turbonomic ontology

Turbonomic uses the data it has access to in order to create a mapping of which resources belong to which applications. Customer would like to be able to reuse this classification to map the cost data to match the Turbonomic categorization.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Additional Reserved Instance Recommendations - Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

Need tracing support for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Dear colleagues, we have a large customer who uses WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (java app): https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/blob/release-6.6.0 when they instrument it they miss half of calls. They see much more calls in Dynatrace, it affects Inst...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Siebel Tracing and Monitoring with IBM Instana

We want to monitor Oracle Siebel application and have installed Instana agent on Oracle Siebel servers. We can see siebel in the list of discovered applications however, we are unable to view its API calls. only /siebel api can be seen and we are ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Calculated / Dynamic Columns for Rate * Quantity

Similar to Service Demand Planning, it would be very helpful to have the ability to add calculated columns to ITP for services that are rate * quantity. Currently the dollar amount for volume driven services have to be manually calculated in ITP.&...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Allow for Python/SQL data manipulation

Customer would like to be able to use python or SQL to manipulate the data to create table joins and data transformation.  They are familiar with using those methods a
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Enabling tracing on Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a hybrid multi-cloud platform to manage APIs in all environments, although today we have metrics on the solution already enabled are not enough to identify the transactions that go through the platform, for this reason it i...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Add automatic creation/modification system fields for to each plan row

Clients often ask for fields that are easily viewed in the expenses table view to identify who created or modified the row and when. Please add the following automatic system fields to capture that detail. Audit logs are only available to admins a...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

To be able to reset a JOB "estimated duration time" in the Database .

This would be useful, in quickly resetting JOBs that run for excessive time, then revert back to normal running conditions . We were recommended to create a RFE for this enhancement
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Submitted