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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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Monitor on message types

Hi, We have some requirements where instead of putting a certain message id to monitor. We monitor all *INQUIRY messages which has not been responded within a certain period of time. If an INQUIRY message is still waiting for a reply for more than...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Turbonomic Target for Riverbed NPM.

It will help with more management and visibility context on the supply chain
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Need an alert configuration for Instana License expiry

Hi Team, We would like to have an alert configuration to notify us on the license expiration. It will be helpful for us to renew the license on time. We request you to please consider this request into consideration.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

APIs needed for adding Tags and Zones for Instana agents

It will allow to do bulk tags and zones for a group of agents. We can of course use git based and Ansible but APIs are these days the easiest one to go for and if you provide swagger gui for APIs it will be even easier to manage. Since you are giv...
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 1 Needs more information

Can we add the direct link to automation library on RNA

Adding a direct link towards RNA automation library updates site directly on the the Pliant integrations page ( https://automation-library.ibm.com/templates )
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Future consideration

Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
9 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Button to create logs for ITP performance

We have experienced ongoing slowness issues in IT Planning.  When submitting a ticket, we are told the only way a ticket can be researched is to take a video and provide a HAR file at the same time.  This takes a significant amount of ti...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future 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. 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

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.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review