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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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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...
2 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 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

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.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Needs more information

Include Events and Status data in Apptio BI

Current the Events and Status features do not allow you to easily find the data without exporting to excel and this data is not available in BI. It would be good to add features like group and filter to these reports but also to use in the BI reports
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Needs more information

Custom endpoint levels

Today can you do custom endpoints URL using the "Configure Endpoint Extraction". It would be great if you could do custom endpoints URL with levels. For example if you do a custom endpoint for a specific URL then when you click on it in Analytics ...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 3 Needs more information

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Needs more information

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
3 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 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.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Needs more information

To have a Quarter / Quarter view for data

To have a Quarter / Quarter view for data
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Views 1 Needs more information

Search Box

I would love to have a "search box" where a user can enter text and the report will return the list of relevant records, such as relevant applications. this will work just like the "ehancement idea" search box on this idea page. there are no repor...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Needs more information