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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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Display all affected MQ MFT Transfers and their TransferID metric values in an event or alert details.

Currently the list of all affected transfers and their IDs are present when viewing the IBM MQ MFT Agent dashboard during an incident/issue window, but they are NOT shown in the incident/issue Event or an Alert that triggered because of the Event....
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request: Enhanced Debug Logging for Netcool JDBC Gateway

I am raising this request an enhancement to the Netcool JDBC Gateway. Currently, there is no mechanism to identify problematic ObjectServer column information in JDBC Gateway debug logs. When issues arise with ObjectServer columns, such as varchar...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Impact- Impact API call to policy

Run Native REST API to policy with other user than Admin. The basic authentication makes the use of ADMIN user an PW unsuitable.
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Enhance CP4AIOps to get topology data from Meraki devices

Meraki's marketshare has exploded in serving large enterprises with cloud-managed networking in the last 5 years. Meraki now accounts for 10-20% of Cisco's switching business revenue and it is considered a leader in Gartner's 2022 Magic Quadrant f...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Calc Explorer: Detail Export

As a TBM Admin, I’d like to be able to export the Calc Explorer reports underlying data so that I can create custom /granular level detailed views to prioritize & manage the list of model performance enhancements.  I’ll know it’s com...
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Limiting open plan access for users

Is there a way something can be built so that an open plan can only be visible to certain users. So if 10 users only need to complete updates in a particular plan, the open plan would only be available to those 10 users and not everyone. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Quick Add - hide entities based on the role permissions

Users who don't have role permissions to add entities still see the whole list - the idea is to hide the entities that they can not add from Quick Add form.
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Provide a warning when internal certificates are about to expire

Rather than being surprised when internal certificates have expired when on the CLI (which is rare and usually only when doing upgrades), gives us a heads up in the UI.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release