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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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Reports to be Accessed for Closed Time Periods

End-users who do not have admin access should be able to access the reports even for closed time-periods otherwise the reports might not be helpful to them and each time an admin would have to intervene to keep changing the time-periods.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Allow Custom Report Collections in Vendor Insights

We are building some custom reports in the Vendor Insights Project, that need to be added as new Report Collections in Vendor Insights. Currently, Vendor Insights project doesn't allow us to create/add custom named Report Collections to it. It wil...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Enhance Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Integration Plugin to Support Uploading Files into Specific Bucket Folders

Currently, the Google Cloud Storage integration plugin (version 10.2.0.04) successfully uploads files directly to the root level of a specified GCS bucket. However, it lacks the capability to upload files into a specific folder (or prefix/subdirec...
5 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

It takes around 5 seconds without indicator to load assigned groups for external user created through Frontdoor.

It's very confusing when we select a user and see no group. If we wait for a while then groups appears...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed.

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
11 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Consider maximum utilization during POD startup in addition percentile value for the given observation period for memory limit scaling to prevent out-of-memory kills during POD startup

Some POD have a utilization peak during startup. The percentile-based approach may lead to not considering this peak or if the POD isn't restarted during the observation period this peak is not considered. Turbonomic may recommend to scale down th...