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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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Assign a default Cost Transparency role to users with multiple roles (Planning and CT roles)

We recently added the Planning module to our instance and are in the process of rolling it out to users. We also have access-restricted menu items on our Cost Transparency (CT) landing page so we have users with a Planning role as well as a CT rol...
9 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Add a column to the Connections page to show the Time period the data loads to so it's easier to update connections to the next Fiscal Year

We have over 225 datalink connections, some of which post the ingested data to a specific month (the beginning of our Fiscal Year). Since there is currently no column to show which month the data will post to, we have to review every connection in...
9 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Support double -type chars

Customer wants to add the new feature with specification which allows dimension names to be created using only double-byte characters
9 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Re-order pages

Introduce the possibility to re-order the pages in an ApptioBI report. When you create the report and the pages, maybe you don't have a clear vision of how many pages will you finally create and which order makes sense. Also for existing reports y...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

We need the plans feature to automatically add new accounts to existing plans

If the plans feature cannot automatically add new accounts, it will be highly inconvenient for customers. Manually adding or recreating a plan for each new account is extremely time-consuming. I recommend that the product team adjust the feature t...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
10 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Support for Cognos password 25+ characters allowing special characters

GIS is requiring the Cognos application us service ID passwords with min 25+ characters supporting special characters. IBM support has stated that "Passwords in Cognos Configuration do not have a password policy associated with them in Cognos (the...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for DASH/ WebSphere password 25+ characters allowing special characters

GIS is requiring the DASH/WebSphere application us service ID passwords with min 25+ characters supporting special characters. IBM support has stated that "There is no restriction on special characters for users except for the primary admin user (...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

LDAP redundancy

Customer is wondering on a setup with multiple LDAP servers, could we have a redundancy scheme whereas if an LDAP server fails, another on the list would take over.
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted