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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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Separate editable tables when setting up a new branch

When creating a new branch, the editable tables should be separated instantaneously to avoid any data leakage from the Trunk. If this doesn't happen, changes in the editable tables in the Trunk could change data in the Branch and lead to inconsist...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

BI - Re-sort Tabs

Ability to re-order tabs created in BI report.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

BI - Ability to see who is subscribed to or accessing Reports

Admins need a way to see who is subscribed to or accessing/viewing the report/dashboard to allow for notification if report/dashboard is planned for deletion. When personnel change roles or leave company, we are stuck with old reports that can't b...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
11 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
2 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Multiple SSH Integrations

Allowing multiple ssh integrations in AIOps will allows an administratior creating the runbooks to select different jump hosts/ssh hosts to run the SSH Scripts. This will be quite helpful in scenarios where the client network is segregated into di...
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Option to run Actions in Parallel inside the Runbook

Currently AIOps Allows the administratiors to create the runbooks with mulitple actions steps inside them however they limit the user from running the actions in parallel. Only Sequential run of the actions is allowed in the current functionality....
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Not under consideration