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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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Trigger Report Email Subscriptions by Push to Production

I love the new feature to allow email subscriptions for reports in ApptioOne. I think it would be beneficial to have a trigger the email subscription by a push to production occurring. i.e. data in production has been updated so I want to let my e...
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

ApptioScript On Save of Editable Table

Would love to be able add ApptioScript on editable tables to run "on save" (rather than on load, on row add, on duplication, or on cell edit). This would allow the script to run when users press the save button on an editable table vs. when it is ...
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Future consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Reflect Sum of Highlighted Fields

To improve user experience when collaborating within the plan or forecast, have the ability to highlight fields in Expense Planning and Summary Tabs to get a sum of those fields (similar to excel functionality)
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add custom user messages / pop ups in IT Planning

The regular 'What's new' pop-ups for each IT Planning update gave us the following idea: We, as TBM Office, want to be able to customize and set pop-ups / usermessages in IT Planning, maybe using the same technology as the update messages. This wo...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add ability to pause target reporting

We have a password that changes and it takes a number of days to reset. In the time it takes update the password the targets try too many times and locks the new password. If we can pause the discovery of the target with a pause button this would ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future 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...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Would like to have VMWare vCPU Shares (low, normal, high) as an attributes for filtering

To filtered down to VMs that has a certain vCPU shares settings. e.g. If all SQL VM should have "High" shares, we can quickly find if there is any SQL VM that has been misconfigured to have "low" or "normal" shares.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review