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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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Set a threshold to ignore fallout to a certain degree in model report

When checking the model report, even the slightest fallout of one dollar is shown. I´d like to be able to set a threshold like 1% or an absolute like 5k which than is ignored when displaying the report.
7 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

vm automation policies when vm state is idle - include actions also against any attached volumes

All public cloud scale events require downtime. Downtime involves stopping any services running on these IaaS instances during an action execution activity. If a vm has a park schedule or maintenance window, then this is the ideal time to resize (...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Enhancement Request: Utility for Syntax Validation of Probe Properties and nco_pad.conf Files Without Restart

Description: We would like to request an enhancement in the Netcool/OMNIbus suite to include a utility or feature that can validate the syntax of the following configuration files without requiring a component restart: Probe properties files (*.pr...
7 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Cost (Amortized) metric/cost basis option to be added in Business Mappings details page

Customer uses Cost(Amortized) basis in most of the reports to gain cost visibility for cloud commitment and their allocation to the time and place they are consumed. On organize > Business mapping, when we click on a business mapping to view th...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
11 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
11 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Validation Rules - Suppress the rule id in error message

Validation Rules - Suppress the rule id that appears along with the error message on UI as it is not meaningful from a business user's perspective, it may be helpful for someone from dev team in debugging but from and end users' perspective, it co...
11 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Confidence Vote Improvements to view votes by team.

In SAFe, the first confidence vote is completed at the team level. The second vote is at the ART level after the Risks have been "ROAM'd". Suggested Improvements: View the vote by Team in the PI view. Show a separate line for each voting session b...
11 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Submitted

Instana observabiltiy console - grant access to specific vSphere Datacenter

We monitoring multiple vSphere Datacenters, but we would like have option to grant access to view them separtely, same like for Kubernetes view
11 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted