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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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Commitment Support for AWS Dynamo DB Reserved Instances

Standard commitment support for this commitment type.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

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)

Custom quick filters for visual reports also to apply to PNG export

The export could be used e.g., in presentations while now when all data for all items is shown the visual is often too loaded.
4 days ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Submitted

RIA integration to IBM DevOps Deploy

IBM DevOps Deploy is a Application Release and Deployment Automation tool with a low-code/no-code approach to define deplyoment processes. REST Api is described in detail in the documentation: DevOps Deploy REST Overview DevOps Deploy REST Commands
4 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

ApptioBI calculated total field no longer working

Related to case TS017808747. The "AWS Services Count" widget in a "FinOps Dashboard" is no longer totaling the count of each service.In Oct the total count was 49 but in Nov it was showing as 1.The widget is using a calculated field "Cost Total /"...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

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
4 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

I want to prevent the file /tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/* that TEPS starting command creates.

When /opt/IBM/ITM/lx8266/iw/java/jre/bin/java is executed (when TEPS starts up), some files '/tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/*' will be generated. I would like to prevent these files from being generated. The related IBM support inquiry is this one: ht...
4 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

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...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Container - Bin packing recommendations

Clusters could be more optimized if the bin packing was optimized. It would be helpful to see recommendations that provided guidance to more optimally utilize clusters.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review