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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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Improvements for state "Stuck Online"

Today, we have very limited possibilities to operate a resource with state "stuck online". There are two functions that should be improved:1. a resource stays in "stuck online" if the stop request is canceled and the desired state isn't "offline" ...
over 13 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

If Number of Jobs in Queue is >= threshold then the alert should be triggered.

We have configured some of the jobs visible in Smart alert but still many other jobs are not visible in smart alerts to enable this monitoring parameter. The support team has identified reason behind and it is that only Top 20 Jobs would be visibl...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Ability to embed Targetprocess Reports/Dashboards as iFrames in an external webpage

The ability to embed Targetprocess Reports/Dashboards as iFrames in an internal company webpage (i.e. Sharepoint, Confluence, etc.) would help keep stakeholders informed as it relates to the execution of strategic initiatives or projects without t...
6 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Allow reporting on Cloudability Right-sizing recommendations based on last 30 days in addition to 10 days in Apptio BI

The "Cloudability Right-sizing" data set in Apptio BI is locked on showing the recommendations that have been generated using the last 10 days of utilization data. There should be an option to either use the 10 days or 30 days utilization data bas...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

SecureClient available for Self-managed Turbonomic.

The customer would like to set up a Self-managed Turbonomic instance in thier own data center, and they want it to manage vCenters located in other remote data centers as well. However, switching between multiple Turbonomic instances would be inco...

Show comparative daily figure

generally find it useful - but in February and March it is always going to show the wrong data as it is comparing days with different number of days. It would be more useful if the headline showed a comparative daily figure for the daily run rate ...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Under review

Display clients by username or computer name in Flow widget of SevOne DI instead of IP address

"Flow - Top Apps and Categories Detail" report is very nice.It is useful for me to find a user who most access the specific application by checking the "Top Apps > Top Clients" widget. But this widget displays clients by IP address. This is a b...
13 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
14 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted