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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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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...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Java profiling for windows OS

It gives developers continuous and historical code-level view of application performance that is essential for locating CPU, memory allocation and I/O hot spots as well as latency bottlenecks. Benefits anyone who is hosting Java on windows machine...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners with UI or API

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners? There is no indicator, that I’m aware of, for who created the view and this is an issue we would like to avoid in the future.
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Events add - ability to add the joblog from a batch job Event Rule in the Event Email that is sent out to individuals

This is useful because customers can see just in their email what the issue in the joblog was.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

ServiceNow Datalink for fm_expense_line and cost_plan

Customer (global leading trading company) is requesting to add standard datalink with ServiceNow fm_expense_line and cost_plan tables with date range. The customer is designing to create budgets and actuals in SNow and need automatic connection wi...
12 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Datalink: Multiple Year Copy

We are using a dedicated project to report data from Planning and copy reference data from CT to to Plannig CT. Today we have to set-up multiple datalinks to push data for multiple years. Our demand is a capability to copy a full table including a...
12 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Monitoring of Custom Application Error Codes by Instana

The customer uses Instana for Unified Payment Interface application monitoring. They want to monitor error codes generated by UPI application by Instana.
12 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Functionality already exists

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 0

Custom Lists, Line Item Filter & Cost Object permission

It would be nice to have the possibility to synchronise the custom lists, line item filters and cost object permission btw CT and ITP. The idea is to have multiple entities for he custom lists, line item filters. Cost Object permission is an inter...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Under review