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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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Enable Disk Filesystem Attributes (Filesystem Name, Used Space, Available Space) in Custom Payloads

Description: We would like to request the ability to include detailed disk filesystem attributes in the custom payload of alerts — particularly when sending alerts via webhook for disk usage thresholds. Currently, when we configure a custom alert ...
12 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Return missing details of graphical view in workload designer

In version 9.4 of the Workload Scheduler we used to be able to see the earliest start time and conditional dependency criteria on the graphical view. This is missing in version 10.2.2 (we recently upgraded) and we miss it. As long as I'm asking, i...
12 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Enhanced Linked Report Drilling: Enable Cross-Dataset Navigation via Dimension Mapping

Currently, Apptio Cloudability's linked report drill-down functionality is limited to reports sharing the same source dataset. This proposal aims to extend this capability by introducing a "Dimension Mapping" function, allowing users to seamlessly...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 2 Under review

Add the Friendly Region Name in workload planning

currently in the workload plannig there is only the region coding (e.g. eu-south1) and not the friendly name (e.g. Milan) for both clouds. Having the friendly name present would simplify the region search even for the inexperienced and speed up th...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Under review

AWS Splitting Credit Costs by category

I request that you break down the credits by category (see Description Item) on both the plan and the forcast so that we have the ability to make more accurate predictions. I attach the screenshot of AWS which already natively has this functionali...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Capability to draw the Layered topology

From stc(Telco) perspective, we need to have a layered topology plotting capability. For example, they want to see the Layer-1, 2 & 3 topology nodes in the begining, then they want the logical connectivity getting super imposed on top of this....
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page

Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page. Currently this is not the case and you have to go 3-4 clicks to reach the GIS Map view, either using a topology dashboard or viewer or from an alarm event viewer page.
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Subscribe feature in comparison report

Hi Team, We need the feature to subscribe to reports where there is compare checked in the dashboards.Presently, it is greyed out.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review