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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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COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
5 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
5 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Under review

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
5 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted

Add "Alert Cubes" DI widget to summarize alerts by "groups of device groups" or "groups of object groups"

NOC / SOC engineers want a quick visual summary of their assets under management that may have alerts raised for them. By selecting a device group parent group or an object group parent group this will provide a summarized list of groups of groups...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Enable multi-year TARGETs

We do a lot of multi-year budgeted, but are unable to leverage the TARGETS feature because it only applies to the first year of the "plan". We need multi-year TARGETs to match our state biennial budget cycle.
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Managing Plans - Grouping and Access

To help with useability of Planning especially if you have multiple plans - 1) Have a grouping of plans - would allow the drop down to have the group first and then open to see the plans within the group 2) Allow users to be given permission and o...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

ADM sync directions could be separated to bi-directional and option to keep CT->ITP on hold, and automate ITP->CT.

Due to Cost Pools/Bill Codes/Dept reference data been added or modified for each month of a FY, we need to avoid the actual number been changed for prior months that already completed billing process.
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Utilization metrics not appearing for Azure subscriptions

The Azure util data is not supported currently and hence the issue and we would like to know if you have planed a timeline to enable these for Azure Utilization metrics.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Functionality already exists

Possibility to cancel the export and download of reports

Hello, Enhance feature to cancel the preparation and download of a report to avoid the usage of resources and download large files to manage, when the filters were not properly selected. Thank you
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration