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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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Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Needs more information

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Needs more information

Show Configuration Changes in Anomaly Reports

Add a feature to track changes in system configurations and show them in anomaly reports. This can work by pulling data about configuration changes (like from billing systems or logs) and marking the dates of those changes in the reports. This way...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Needs more information

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
8 months ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 0 Needs more information

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.
about 21 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

Missing objects deletion

This should still be in effect if polling fails to a device. Currently if polling fails, objects are never deleted.
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Add more information to device status page

When added, last discovered time and duration, object counts (visible/hidden) - currently only some this information is available and all of it is useful when debugging failures and adding new device types. Some is only available with SQL queries ...
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Create view level permission for SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess

Hi, Our team would find it very useful if we could have a view only alternative to the following role in order to assign a more granular version to our customers: SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / User Management & Login 0 Needs more information

Adding Support for importing device configurations from an EMS system that manage non IP-Based Devices

EMS systems can manage group of devices that could not be accessable from ITNCM. These devices are optical or wireless devices (non-IP based) so ITNCM will not be able to access these devices. If IBM can provide a connector to gather device config...
about 2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Needs more information

Add a possibility to set pre-filter in the inner list of detailed view

Pre-filter would increase the visbility in the inner lists add field for the accounts with many entities and potentially leads to lower amount of mistakenly added entities.
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Needs more information