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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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Event Creation based VIOS/LPAR State (pHMC Plugin) on Instana

The customer has enabled the pHMC plugin for Instana and started to get the "State" of their Logical Partitions and VIOs' states. However they are not able to create event based on this state. However to retire their legacy monitoring systems, the...
2 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Monitoring Virtual Target Device Span (VTD Span) on VIOs with Instana

With Instana IQM bundle, the customer would like to monitor if VTD (Virtual Target Disk) is mapped to Multiple Disks on VIOs. With the PMR TS019458836, IBM informed the customer that with current versions of Instana IQM bundle, it is not possible ...
2 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Adding Details on Instana Grafana Plugin Legend Format

On Instana Grafana plugin's legend format, the customer would like to retrieve the infrastructure details such as FQDN name, deployment name, pod name, container name. As soon as they only able to retrieve the MAC address, it wouldn't help to make...
2 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
22 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Submitted

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
22 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Submitted

Current Date formula in reports and/or filtering

I would like to implement a dynamic filtering mechanism that automatically adjusts based on the current date. Specifically, I want to embed a formula within the filter logic so that when a report is opened—regardless of how much time has passed—it...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Provide and option to adjust the display names for Departments and Projects dropdown in the ITP UI based on client's naming convention to make it more user friendly

We are facing a situation where we need to use two different hierarchies within Planning: a regional hierarchy and a product line hierarchy. The product line hierarchy will also be used for the approval flow, with product line owners and product m...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Option to ensure targets also get filtered by project hierarchy

Currently, there is an option only to set/view targets at department level. We need an option to give or at least show Top-down-targets for both projects and departments. Currently, project owners see the full target value at each level within the...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Have the ability to have private API keys for Container Cost Insights enablement

Having one key for the entire organization is a risk.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
9 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review