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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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Ability to monitor the custom process and change the process name based on the different arguments

This feature request is to monitor the custom process end to end. Basically the running batch process on the server when we have requests to run different batch processes some on a particular schedule and some on an adhoc basis. So, when the batch...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Publishing IT Planning data without Check-in

It's important to have the ability to prevent triggering the calculations/check-in when we publish the IT Planning data into CT.  One may argue to hold off publication until the budget is finalized. But to get the full picture, decision maker...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Add role level security/cost object permissions to Event Log/Change History in ITP

As an End User, I'd like to check, what changes have been made to my cost center/cost object.  The Event log in ITP would be perfect for this.  However, since the cost object permissions due not apply in the event log, this is problemati...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Watson AIOPS / Netcool® Operations Insight - Event Manager Operator to support manual PVC provisioning

Currently the Event Manager operator(https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.7?topic=about) requires specific storage classes to be selected when installing the Operator with the persistence option enabled.This approach requires to have a storage clas...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Port info should be in the framework dashboard

ISBANK wants to track Port info and it should be in the framework dashboard.This is not a supported framework, we cannot collect that information.This idea for a framework sensor to collect that to our Sensor Team.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Increase the max observation period for VM Default policy to 120 days rather than the current maximum of 90 days

It would be useful so that we can track more 1 quarter's worth of performance & capacity metrics data. We have application customers with VM's that run hot only once per quarter and would like to see their capacity and performance data coverin...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

Request to enhance the JDBC gateway to enable connections to two Databases in a single gateway process

Request to allow JDBC gateway to write to two databases in a single gateway process - This allows us to write to different databases at the same time ensuring the delivery of all alarms to both the databases simultaneously.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Mange totals at the bottom of a column

Some columns contain an average or a multiplier (eg, number of users) that doesn't make sense to make a total from. I wish we could right click in TBM Studio and choose "Total, Average, None".  Also happens on the Totals column, all Metrics a...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review