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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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Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data. In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from being publ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

The customer would like the ability to create an "Actions" widget in their dashboard to showcase the action executed for a particular business unit. We created groups for these business units in Turbo based on customer tags but that scope is not supported in the "Actions" widget

Being able to showcase actions executed on the basis of a business group would allow for more friendly competition within departments to get a "better turbo score" and track their individual teams progress.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

Missing endpoints for logs on Instana API Service Catalogue

we have internal client's looking for logs search by API endpoints and its a missing content into Intana service catalogue. Instana API docs
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Export Anomalies as csv

We need to further analyze, keep track of the anomalies identified. this is done in a separate file, so we need to be able to export the identified anomalies.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Planned for future release

BI - Reuse of colors/Edit colors

Due to reuse of colors, can’t identify legend, due to color duplication on charts. Color palettes need to editable, as when trying to stay consistent, say with a given Vendor on multiple charts, the color should remain consistent, not vary each time.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Data ingestion for OCI

Currently there are limmited options to ingest data from OCI if you do not have access to the master account. In our oganisation we are the child tenant of a master organisation, therefore we are having difficulties ingesting the CUR from OCI. ORA...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Planned for future release