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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...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Button for cloning Work Allocations

Creation of Work Allocation is fully manual process. Creation of duplicate Work Allocation is even more cumbersome, because user has to first record what data are used in the existing WA (PortfolioEpic, Product, other custom fields). Most of the m...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Under review

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Cloning/Splitting a user story or feature would also copy over the acceptance criteria

Entering new AC on every story is time consuming, especially since it is its own object in ATP and requires extra clicks to reach. Having the ability to copy the AC from one story to the next and reuse or only need to edit would save a lot of time
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Roadmap views within a Card

In a roadmap view and also for the roadmap views within a Card, make date ranges default to a certain setting
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Needs more information

Please enhance descriptive fields to have a resizable pop-out box

end user visual flexibility
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Needs more information

Option to not allow circular dependencies

End user flexibility
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Needs more information

Where the Total Calculation should always be the sum of the subtotals?  It is much more intuitive for subtotals to be the sum of the totals rather than have totals computed differently than subtotals/

Where the Total Calculation should always be the sum of the subtotals? It is much more intuitive for subtotals to be the sum of the totals rather than have totals computed differently than subtotals/
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Needs more information

Adapt number format to regional conventions for decimal and thousands separator

For European users, the display of amounts in the American format can be quite annoying. E.g. The numeric fields are formatted using the American conventions: - point as decimal separator - comma as thousands separator e.g. 880,000.00 In Germany, ...
12 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review