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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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Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
2 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
4 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Details around a versioned table in the pipeline step

As a user I would like to be able to identify where a version in a table has happened and when. We would like to include it in the pipeline step shown in the image below, therefore, it is obvious there is a version and the document does not have t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Organize validation rules

When having a lot of validation rules, the list becomes quite chaotic and it is difficult to find the correct validation rule when a user receives a validation error message. Some proposed improvements: * Show the validation rule id in the list....
almost 3 years ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Allow View Permissions to be different than Folder/Group Permissions

I wanted to set up standard groups that would contain many different views some of which I may or may not have permissions to. This would allow all reports to be in one group but only the reports that I have access to would I be able to view.
about 8 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Only publish editable table if editable table data has changed

Currently, editable tables publish to 'normal' tables regardless if the data has changed within the editable or not and this causes a check-in. It would be more efficient if the editable table only published when the data in that editable table ha...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 2 Under review

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
3 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Under review

Function to allow the controlled display of an allocated value from a lower object

Being able to set the Columns of a table to be the column of a lower object (i.e. a drill table) is extremely useful in showing the makeup of costs - eg the Cost Pools contributing to an application, you see the values at Cost Source categorised b...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Out-of-the-box vs Custom Reports

As a TBMA, I'd like to be able to pull a report that shows me which of our existing reports are out-of-the-box vs custom. We are building out a report dictionary and this is a field we'd like to have available. This will also help us work around u...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review