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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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Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 0

Change Legend Label on IT Planning Summary Dashboard Spend Trend

Please modify the IT Planning - Summary Dashboard - Spend Trend widget to display the selected plan title instead of the word "Plan" and make the label match what is shown on the Spend Waterfall widget. Background: We are using the ITP Summary Das...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Validation Rule for Program/Group Entity

The Program/Group Entity is not present in the Validation Rule.Ask : We should be able to create a validation rule for Program/Group Entity
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

ITM SQL Agent should optimize the SQL Server plan cache usage.

Problem is that currently plans are created for every query ( samples in attached document ) that means overhead in creating a lot of plans only used once and a waste of plan cache memory.That could be optimized to reduce the plan cache memory.
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

show relation embedded roadmap view

I have a roadmap in a detailed view and I want to show dependencies.
11 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Multiple Labor Allocation Rule Reference Data Versions

The ability to save different versions of Labor Allocation Rules to be used for current year Forecast and next year Budget.  The facilities loadings, vacancy rates, bonus %, insurance costs, etc vary from year-to-year.  We currently must...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Default bookmark applied to all the users when they connect to IT Planning

As an Apptio Admin, I would like to create a default 'public' bookmark that will be applied to all the end-users when they connect to IT planning.This is required to display a default layout including all the important columns : the one that the e...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

HAProxy backend to show more than 300 backend servers

Currently Instana shows 299 backend servicer and 1 Frondend servers. Our environment has more than ~1000 Servers. This feature is to increase and show more than 300 backend and Frontend servers.
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration