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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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Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Train events to identify event anomalies

Events are received continuously and have a corresponding/expected payload which is used to perform important backend processing, e.g. policies will trigger incident creation based on field values, events are grouped based on scope values settings...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Limiting open plan access for users

Is there a way something can be built so that an open plan can only be visible to certain users. So if 10 users only need to complete updates in a particular plan, the open plan would only be available to those 10 users and not everyone. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Quick Add - hide entities based on the role permissions

Users who don't have role permissions to add entities still see the whole list - the idea is to hide the entities that they can not add from Quick Add form.
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Enhance Line Item Code function to replace all and retain Line Item Codes

We reload our Labor and Assets data monthly in ITP.  This ensures that resources that are gone are removed, resources that change depts are moved and new resources are added.   We began to use Line Item Codes as a way to maintain a ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Update Java clients such as Administrator GUI to enable authentication with ObjectServer using user account passwords with more than 30 characters.

FixPack 24 enabled non-java based clients to utilize passwords having more than 30 characters when authenticating with an ObjectServer. This is great for probes/gateways however it is preferred to enable the java-based clients (e.g. Administrator)...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Button to create logs for ITP performance

We have experienced ongoing slowness issues in IT Planning.  When submitting a ticket, we are told the only way a ticket can be researched is to take a video and provide a HAR file at the same time.  This takes a significant amount of ti...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

ASM Fabric and Tenant Jobs/Listeners to connect to all HA ACI controllers

Hello, This RFE is for ASM capability of a single Fabric and Tenant Job/Listener to connect to all ACI HA controllers. We have three APIC controllers in high availability mode. Currently, ASM ACI observer jobs/listeners only support on APIC contro...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Possibility to add formulas into custom columns

As a TBMA, we would like to create custom columns using formulas that can calculate its value based on already existing formulas
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review