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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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Data Insight - Support multiple owners for Reports RBAC

Currently Reports RBAC includes Public and RO permission (across all users.) A business issue arises when a Public RO (Production) Report needs to be modified while the (single) Owner is not available. This forces an admin user to manually make a ...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Use the same "Warning" logic , when we delete a Jobstream Object , IWS will alert the user if the jobstream is used in other Jobstreams as a dependency ogic

If you DELETE a "JOB" object from the IWS database and it is included in other Jobstreams , IWS will alert/Stop the delete command because its cross referenced in other Jobstreams. If we DELETE a "CPU" object , again IWS will alert/Stop the User f...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Department Filter Sorted by Department ID rather than Department Name

Currently Department Filter is filtered by Department Name rather than Department ID.  This can be confusing when searching for Departments, especially if user is used to work with IDs rather than Names.  The option to choose if Depart...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add support for Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi is one of the popular storage vendor widely used across enterprises and currently there is no target integration available.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Tabs to Export in Excel the Same as displayed in Apptio

When exporting a report from Apptio to Excel, it is requested that tabs in the report keep the same display name as displayed in Apptio, to streamline analysis for stakeholders. 
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add top level cloud provider filter to the Action Center Global Environment UI

Currently when starting at the Action Center Global Environment, you have to click on Scale/Volume or Resize/App Component, etc and then select which cloud provider you are interested in. This must be replicated for each level down in the Actions ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics

Hi Team, We are in need of CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics to identify the pod crash which is a mandatory requirement.
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Exclude unused objects from Cost modeled metric's Diagram view

As a TBMA, I would like to see only used/connected objects in the Diagram view of the Cost modeled metrics. Other views (eg Model Overview) of the metric already excluded unused/disconnected objects. Today, unused/disconnected objects appear in t...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration