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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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Enable collection of service flow metrics on service relation

As a monitoring org for sales distribution platform with complex distributed service architecture we need metrics like eg. latency, calls, error-rate for caller-callee service relation as opposed to existing application service flow map where metr...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Define which Asset Classes are available for new plans, and which legacy

My organisation has changed the useful life of software assets from 5 years to 3 years, but the class is still the same. As a Budget Process Owner, I have to show the expected depreciation of 5 year assets from my asset register. However, I also n...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Waterfall Charts in BI for ITP Data

As a user I would like to take my planning data create a waterfall chart in BI. I  want to compare from ONE ITP plan this year vs next year. Current functionality in planning only allows for comparing one plan to another vs compare the s...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Export list of Datalink Connectors with details

Customer would like to be able to export an Excel file containing details to all their Datalink connectors- Name, Type, Group, Last Run, Next Scheduled Run, Agent, Destination, Source, Schedule, etc. This will allow them to effortlessly create a d...
7 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these requests.
10 months ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Composer cmd to display Locked objects in the DB

We have a need for a new composer command that displays all objects in "Locked" status in the DB. Would like to have this ability for all the different type of objects that can get Locked in the DB. Jobs, Jobstreams, Resources, Variable Tables, Ca...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ASM servicenow observer to provide improved filtering of data either within the observation or post collection prior to insertion

It's useful because at the moment we have limited filtering in the filer API request, it applies to all classes being discovered and is applied to the API call made to servicenow. So you get a choice of Include or Exclude, but not the ability to c...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release