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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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No tags for empty vm specs

When we export App service plan Delete actions, We noticed that tags not appear, they're not there and would love to see them included. They only appear to be missing in Delete actions for VM spec.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

From Project Explorer's Tables list, add "Unused Object" option for filtering

As a TBMA, I would like to identify which objects are not used by any model. This would allow me to easily locate objects missing inbound/outbound allocations and determine actions (eg delete the object, add driver, add allocation). To identify th...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Be able to change work station type

To simplify transition for objects defined on extended agent to dynamic pool agent. To be able to change workstation type from extended agent to dynamic pool on the go for migrations purposes.
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Automating zero-value row removal to enhance efficiency & accuracy in forecast & budget plans in ITP

Requesting an enhancement to IT Planning (ITP) to improve efficiency and accuracy by automating the removal of zero-value rows from annual forecast plans and budget plans. The current manual process, conducted twice per year, presents opportunitie...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information

Increase number of Stati in table view

In the table widget of DASH we can specify 4 differene conditions which leads to five different stati. As we have the requirement to show more icons we would like to increase the limit. It should be an easy change to allow more than 5 stati.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Generic Configuration-based SDK

Generic Configuration-based SDK When working with the Configuration-based SDK, customer wants to use each class-method pair under "sdk.targets" in a generic way, not individually. To summarize, Instead of this one: sdk: targets: - match: type: cla...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Planned for future release

Schedule Datalink connectors multiple times per week

Datalink should allow connectors to be scheduled multiple days per week.  Currently, I can only run once per week on the day that I choose, or every day.  For example, I have no way of running a connector every Sunday and Wednesday. ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Restrict addition of Percentage columns in Apptio -Non-summable

We have an option to restrict row totals in Apptio for any field (By selecting Summable/Non-summable option in the formula ). But the same option is not working fine when the column total is happening. Percentage values cannot be summable, the cal...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review