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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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Properly version tables and reports etc

There is no way to find the configuration of previous versions of tables / reports (and other items that have configuration that can be changed) Also I cannot find what has changed between different check-ins. I could not revert to a previous chec...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Implement transform pipeline better

The pipeline has been designed to give the appearance of multiple formula steps by, in the background, annotating which step a formula comes after - accordingly you can't have two formula steps one after another. It gives the apparent functionalit...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

All pipeline steps should be able to have comments

Every pipeline step should have the ability to record comments so that other people can see why certain design decisions were made especially when they are not obvious. Why was this field renamed? Why have I grouped in this particular way? What is...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Properly validate formula in pipeline step

Currently if you have this formula =If(value< 99999, use-this, use-that) If use-this or use-that are invalid syntactically (for example do not exist) then we expect an error to be shown. However, if *current* data does not exercise one path the...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

The WMI Proxy ID should be visable in the Cluster Manager Settings under the WMI Proxies tab

In order to add a WMI managed device via API you are required to enter the WMI Proxy ID, the ID is not made available anywhere in the product UI or CLI other than make a MySQL query, which is expressly stated as not a recomended process for custom...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Planned for future release

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

Show status change history of MFT transfers

Our customer needs to track their MFT file transfers and they need to have insights in when file transfers change their status from Started to Progress and finally Successful or Failed. So we need some kind of table that lists all the status chang...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 2 Planned for future release

Unit Driver Names Guardrail for uniqueness across project

Currently, there is functionality that warns and prevents users from naming Unit Drivers (Allocation Lines) from an object to other objects using the same name.  This functionality seems to work within a single object only.  However, the...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review