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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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Read changes from IT Service management tools to provide probable cause hints

80% of incidents are caused by changes, so if an incident occurs in AiOps it would be beneficial so see immediately which changes have happened lately (time to be defined) and which are the probable cause of the incident. The current probable caus...
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

AIOps Kafka Interface Pre-processing engine to masquerade sensitive data in Log

Description: During Log ingestion to AIOps through Kafaka interface customer experiencing that all the LOG data are being ingested to the AIOps for Log Anomaly Detection. In which all the sensitive data like username, password, email address, acco...
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Cldy Forecasting - provide previous period in export as well as forecasted period

For reference when forecasting knowing the previous month vs current forecasted month would be worthwhile when exports are created.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Add Cloudability Rightsizing ROI endpoint data to Apptio BI for reporting

The reporting on the Cloudability ROI screen is very primitive and doesn't allow for each reporting of rightsizing tickets and savings. Please add the dataset to Apptio BI so it can be integrated with standard user reporting.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Stop calculating previous years in development

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. We've noticed data from 4 years ago calculating in "Development" that we don't need to calculate, which are extending calculation times. We only publish ...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Date functions should utilize custom calendar

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. Date functions are pulling based on calendar and not the custom calendar we are utilizing. For example, in our custom calendar, September (our P8) starts...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

reduce alerts for Redundant Application Servers SAP

s it possible to use the SAP message server (which has an overview of all application servers) to monitor the application servers, in order to avoid Instana raising alerts for a down server when a replica is still ensuring service continuity?
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 5 Under review