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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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Spending Anomalies: add "unusual percentage" column

As email alerts based on percentage thresholds can be created, we would like to see a "Unusual percentage" column close to the "Unusual Spend" column in the Spending Anomalies view. This column will help us to prioritize which anomalies we will ma...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Spending anomalie alerts is not compatible with view.

Spending anomalie alerts is not compatible with view.
24 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Cloudability rightsize comment filter

Cloudability rightsize comment filter
24 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Apptio Costing Essentials: Make Solution Allocations independent from hardcoded Solution Type, e.g. Allow Headcount Allocations to whole Organization based on Criteria from Workbench

Currently only End User Solutions are allocated via Headcount to Organizations. We propose to adjust the mechanism independent from Solution Types, so all allocations can be set via workbench, as for most customers the methods are different. In th...
24 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Under review

Rightsizing recommendations for Aurora I/O Optimised to Standard

Include I/O cost as part of the RDS recommendations Rightsizing support to make recommendations to move from Aurora I/O Optimised to Aurora Standard
24 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

Need the ability to run TopN reports with percentages for non-sorted data in DI.

It currently fails. Can be accomplished in the NMS but not DI.
24 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Under review

Ability to use different service ID's for LDAP/IMPACT

Need ability to use different LDAP BindDN ID/pswd on all components (DASH WebSphere, IMPACT, Cognos). IMPACT user is also impacted with having to match the LDAP user. The Bank is required to rotate the passwords on yearly basis and trying to avoid...
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review