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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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Automated report delivery from Total Cost/Apptio

Requesting a method for automated scheduled report delivery of reports from Total Cost. We have a series of reports created in TBM Studio that reflect key KPIs and other pertinent data. We need a way to automatically schedule the delivery of these...
14 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Add tracing support for Borland Delphi

Ability to trace Borland Delphi client calls to SQL Server, perhaps an intermediate component that discovers transactions without the need to modify the application.
14 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Need API to gain secret from instance so it does not need to be stored in metadata. Related to OAuth2

We would like the ability to dynamically get a client secret for an OAuth2 client using an API call. We have many tools and processes that rely on the Turbo API and this would allow us to more easily enable automation and avoid the need to manage ...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Add option to add EDP to effective rate

Add option to add EDP to effective rate. This would show a more accurate savings cost.
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

IS IWS 10.1.05 Software SUPPORTED on an Oracle TDE Database ?

IS IWS 10.1.05 Software SUPPORTED on an Oracle TDE Database ?
14 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
14 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
27 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Requesting slicers be enhanced to cater for “single selection”

Currently we have a filter where have an option to select multiple values from the filter, but we would like to have single selection from the filter. So that we can see values only apply to the particular quarter.
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted