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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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IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Restrict -Cost center owners are able to unlock the cost object

We do the forecast cycle and Budget in phased manner. As part of the plan process, we do first non-labor and CC owners submit their changes for Non-Labor, then do the variance analysis with management and then start the Labor in similar way and co...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Azure Databricks Plug-In Enhancement: Add required parameters used in databricks into Job Definition panels in IWS 9.5+, and incorporate API v2.1 to enable run-now-and-wait.

Adding the ability to pass parameters to Azure Databricks opens up re-usability of individual databricks to perform tasks across a batch application that uses Tivoli for orchestration. This change also introduces flexability in application design....
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Attach PDFs to Contracts in ITPF

As a Cost Center Owner, I’d like to be able to attach our PDF contract to our contract line item so that I can easily identify, align and manage our contracts with our vendors. I’ll know it’s complete when I can look up a contract name or vendor n...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

WebMethods Integration Server Support

We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 3

Datalink Connector List Export

The current connector list in DataLink only offers limited information. In order to see what tables connectors load into, source and destination time periods, and other details, you need to click into each connector. Attached is a mockup showing t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Netcool probe can connect any other component in service assurance platform

Currently Netcool probe is designed to read only static data as lookup file and can insert data in Objectserver. No other DB or updating alarms is possible. If Netcool probe can handle any other database other than objectserver also can connect an...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Legal Entity Uplift

Is there is a mechanism that can be made to apply an uplift to an entire cost base based on a metric that we load, like the labour allocation rules.  Is there a rule that can be written at legal entity level and apply a % uplift to add to t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Group membership should be easily visible for each VM

When I look at a VM I can see an overview, details, policies, actions. I would like to be able to see what groups the VM is part of in this same view. Having to go into reports to find the groups for a VM is not a good user experience. Thank you.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release