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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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an option to send PDF export for Dashboards by email and a schedule this email

adding an option to Instana to export the dashboards and send it by email to non-Instana users. this will be helpful to share dashboards with managers, stakeholders and non technical team. also adding the option to schedule this report to send a m...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Job/schedule report in table format rather than just dump filr in IWS format

if any team wants their scheduls/job details in table format like ABC job runs at this job,with this depedancy(list of all depedanies),part of this jobstream etc etc so this will be easily reable/understanble for normal user than checking and unde...
about 18 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Support InfoSphere DataStage metrics for Instana Agent

We have a system where InfoSphere DataStage is main component. In this system, we take a long time and cost to collect metrics and evaluate it. Please support the InfoSphere DataStage metrics for Instana Agent. Our InfoSphere DataStage is 11.7.0, ...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

increasing workstation or dyanmic pool name name lenth to as much as max size

Current mac charchater size is 16 character , but with dynamic pool , 16 characters are not enough for name as many client have Many dyancmi pool so setting diffewrnt name by following stabndad as well is very difficult so I would suggest to chang...
about 18 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Ability to export Forecast Variance Details in Cloud Financial Planning.

Customer would like ability to export Forecast Variance Details in CFP.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

IOPS & Throughput Added to Workload Optimization Calculations

Cloudability Rightsizing recommendations are based primarily on CPU, Memory and GPU utilization (in the case of A2 and G2 instances). However, it’s important to note that throughput and IOPS characteristics are not currently factored into these re...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

When users update a file through a reportwith different column headers or different file types instead of receiving a warning message users shouldn't be able to check in the changes.

Repro: User uploads a file in a report with different column headers, or a different file type and a warning message appears Current State: Users can still save and check in data. They might see the warning message but no confirmation that they di...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

In IT Planning the client wants to see in one tab the ability to show labour activities and the financial outcomes without having to move between tabs

Because it means an easier UI experience for the user
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Hourly breakdown of usage data for AWS and Azure

Useful to get usage trends of our instances in order to track shutdown in nbh, trends on hourly usage, etc.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted