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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 download csv data export of drill table results from Apptio BI reports

Problem: Right now a report view can access a configured drill table, update as needed if it's an exploratory drill table, but there's no easy way to get a copy of the results. Not all drill tables even allow them to save a copy in Apptio BI itsel...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Quick Currency Switch Button

Overview Currently, users must navigate through multiple steps in the user preferences menu to change their preferred currency. This process is time-consuming and interrupts workflow, especially for users who frequently need to view data in differ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Under review

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Turbonomic | Added support for Parquet format in the CUR report.

Some customers have already exported their cost reports, but instead of using gzip - text/csv, they are using Parquet, which is generally more efficient. In such cases, they have to recreate the reports, so it would be helpful if Parquet format co...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Pin the global Views box on reports

Other controls, such as global filters, are pinned so that they remain on the top of the screen as the user scrolls through the dashboard. Doing the same with Views would allow the customer to quickly see if there are any restrictive views which m...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Spark Worker Nodes PVC Storage

Currently, spark worker nodes use ephemeral storage instead of a PVC, possibility to run into issues with filling up worker nodes storage. Eliminated by using a PVC. Makes system require a high pod storage limit as well (specifically for these wor...
24 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow for BI report to be default login report

When one logs into Cloudability the home screen is Cloudability Dashboard. Would like Preferences to allow User to select a BI Report to be home screen at login.
24 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Column width settings fixed

We would like to have the column width of the different attributes in a list view be fixed. Right now you always have to set the column sizes over and over again every time you go back to a list view. This is super annoying.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review