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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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Add a column on the "List of Virtual Macines" view to show the hostname of the host where each VM is running on

This is particular important for on-premise environment where we need to see the VM-to-Host mapping (true for both VMWare and Power VM)
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Under review

Update Email template for Anomaly Alert

We are using a workflow to create a Jira ticket for this purpose. Therefore, we request that the account name be added to the email subject to meet the business requirement. This will help the system understand and create a Jira story based on the...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 4 Under review

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Under review

Recommendations for instance scheduling

One way to reduce costs is to allow for instance scheduling to downsize ASGs or power off instances during periods that the system is not being used. Customers would like to be able to view recommendations for workloads that can save money by inve...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Enable the line breaks and wrap text options in report columns

In TargetProcess, text fields such as comments are often constrained by column width, leading to incomplete visibility of the data. This limitation hampers the ability to present comprehensive insights, especially at the executive level. To addres...
29 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Cloud pak for AIOps API support to update alert activity

Hi Team, We want to update the alert activity comments using API. The customer is looking for similar functionality like Netcool journal to update using API
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Hide recommendations filter for UI

Currently we can filter the application to show rightsizing recommendations for compute over a certain amount. We'd like to see more elaborate filter options that apply to all right sizing categories like: 1) An amount threshold that applies to al...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

azure pass monitor add metric fqdn of service sql database and postgres

Users connect to Azure databases through fqdn, but Instana lacks this metric, which makes it difficult to accurately associate with specific databases. Therefore, this metric needs to be added.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Under review