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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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Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
2 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Allow flexibility in creating new work item types and linking them to other work item types

I would like be able to create new work item types by myself. Then I would like to be able to link them e.g. as custom fields to other work item types.Example: I am using Requirement management in TP but requirements in TP do not have any linking ...
about 1 hour ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

The "More Information" Link should be available to show justification of the temporal/seasonal/scope-based when RBAC profiles are enabled

Users should be able to view justifications regardless of whether they have a RBAC profile or not. We monitor multiple applications and each application team has their own profile. seeing an alert is seasonal, for example, without the ability to v...
about 1 hour ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Only display full day of information in charts

Often the most recent day has a tendency to look like a reduction when you do not have the full days' worth of data in the tool. The ability to remove the last day or set charts to -1 day would help reduce confusion with end users
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Cost Totals at the bottom of Table Widgets

End users would like the option to toggle on cost totals to the bottle of table widgets. It would be very helpful in telling the full story of the data without having to add an additional adget to get the totals.
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Widget Descriptions

The ability to add a short descriptor within the widget or being able to hover over a widget and see the descriptor
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

We really need a way to associate various application assets into a single bundle that can be delivered to other Pliant instances

I know I sound like a broken record on Projects, but we just run into a major issue at Verizon. We built a project that involved a dozen WFs and a dozen API access points. The access points had a fair amount of configuration each, such as custom h...
about 2 hours ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

When planning is in maintenance please have a dialog box stating "Maintenance in progress"

Team that have users from all over the globe that have working hours during the maintenance windows. Because it is their normal working hours and the system is down with no explanation it causes people to think something is wrong with the system a...
about 2 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

The JSON Audit files should be valid JSON

The audit files that IWS stores in JSON format may not always be valid JSON documents. Specifically, the value for "actionDependentContents" may make the document unparsable. For example, in this record, the quotes in the value of "actionDependent...
about 4 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted