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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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Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Needs more information

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Needs more information

When comparing Graphs, SevOne differentiates between Source->Destination and Destination->Source whilst VeloCloud shows the Total || Request to develop a functionality which can show the “Total” of both(Source to Des and vice versa)

When comparing the top talkers Graphs, SevOne differentiates between Source->Destination and Destination->Source whilst VeloCloud shows the Total.So looking for a functionality which can show the total of both. Otherwise manual intervention ...
21 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Prior notice is required for releases with screen changes

If the release involves screen changes, Instana users must be notified, educated on user operation, and procedures must be changed. Please share the change information before the screen is actually changed. It is fine to simply have release notes ...
22 days ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Needs more information

Create view level permission for SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess

Hi, Our team would find it very useful if we could have a view only alternative to the following role in order to assign a more granular version to our customers: SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / User Management & Login 0 Needs more information

Adding Support for importing device configurations from an EMS system that manage non IP-Based Devices

EMS systems can manage group of devices that could not be accessable from ITNCM. These devices are optical or wireless devices (non-IP based) so ITNCM will not be able to access these devices. If IBM can provide a connector to gather device config...
about 2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Needs more information

Add a possibility to set pre-filter in the inner list of detailed view

Pre-filter would increase the visbility in the inner lists add field for the accounts with many entities and potentially leads to lower amount of mistakenly added entities.
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Needs more information

Show Cost on the Commitment Portfolio table

Currently there are a couple of extra clicks to open a separate report to get to the cost during the selected Reporting Range for the RI's or Savings Plans. Would be nice to have the Cost as another column next to Unrealized Savings.
29 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Needs more information

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Needs more information