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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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Allow Multiple Metadata Fields in Device/Object Group Membership Rule

As we are using Metadata fields to store device or object extra static data, we are facing challenge of only one metadata field can be used in Device/Object Group Membership Rule. Sometimes we can get by creating multiple rules to mimic 'OR' multi...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Gateway for Message_Bus v2 should include Transformer (and be fully compatible to nco_g_xml)

The new release of the Message Bus Gateway (v2) is announced as being more reliable and having better performance than the existing nco_g_xml. However, it turns out to not contain all the functionality. Our customer (main German Telco company) is ...
10 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

It will be good if we have some options to set default values through quick add

When we are adding some data through quick add or some inside any entity, targetprocess should allow us to set the default planned startdate to "current date".
10 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Future consideration

Ability to hide/disable shared costs in container insights page

Every organisation will have its own way to calculate shared container costs, cloudability by default is showing the shared costs which it thinks could be part of shared costs,it is adding confusion to the users, we don't have the ability to hide/...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
24 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

DI 7.1+ should allow for a super admin user to hide or change permissions on OOTB reports for tenants

In DI 7.0 and below, OOTB reports could be deleted. Some DI administrators would do this to tidy up the landing page and Reports form for tenants, so that they'd only have to view relevant reports. This was previously accomplished by using a check...
15 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

SAIOM - make it possible to authenticate on port 443 to eliminate non-secure connections

This will eliminate vulnerabilities related to non-secure connections on port 21 to the OSA-ICCs on System Z. If this cannot be remediated, we are forced to discontinue use of the product.
11 days ago in Tivoli System Automation 0 Submitted

Requesting to add "Day of week" to business mapping for rightsizing tables.

Working on creating a COIN Dashboard for each provider AWS, Azure and GCP. In order to calculate Non production and Production costs by weekday and weekend, we need to evaluate the daily cost from the rightsizing data to categorize accordingly.
16 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Incorrect Call Tracing in Instana with Oracle Service Bus

We are using Instana to monitor our Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). Their Oracle Service Bus (OSB) plays a central role in handling both internal and external service communications. However, they have observed an issue in the Instana Analysis Dash...
16 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted