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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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Ability to Import/export functionality for Account Groups (Organize) to update them in bulk

With over 400+ account groups in Cldy env, it is difficult to identify which Account groups are tagged with the required group values and which are not. Tried the same using API but not very helpful. The idea here is to have an Export option - whi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Dashboards need to be easy to configure and add more applets

OOB dashboard configuration is not enough to handle or present all requirements need to add more applets and can be filtered based to certain text for example
2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted

Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Allow api access to Apptio bi data sources for reporting

There is no API for Apptio BI at present. It would be very useful to be able to extract data from the datasources that can be reported on via the UI in Apptio BI. This would add value in at least these use cases 1) ability to programatically extra...
4 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted

Create a way to schedule or script the manual steps to refresh the source for Enriched Editable Tables

Enriched editable tables let us feed calculated data into the editable tables, however the data isn't able to update for new rows or overwritten data. A lookup in the script* can work when added/editing a row but if the source data changes after t...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Mass "insufficient authority" errors in a log for SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE

Dear Colleagues, due to security policies the customer is not able to grant access to the special queue. Hence they experience the following error in a log: Error: 2025-05-20T07:10:58.879Z AMQ8077W: Entity 'mqumon01' has insufficient authority to ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Update documentation for "Backing up and restoring data" with the steps for 1.1.5

Documentation to backup 1.1.5 does not show the steps to upgrade helm using the install.sh script. Please add supported method within V1.1.5 or later versions using install.sh https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-infra-auto/1.1.x?topic=backend-backin...
24 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Launch Date for EBS Snapshots

This will help the customers to sort and action of the EBS Snapshots which are present for a long time.
24 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

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