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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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Dynamic navigation option from a table - links to specific reports depending on table row contents

Looking for a way of providing user dynamic and tailorable navigation to specific use case reports from a single source.  In this case to get to use cases for specific Service Names in the service taxonomy - potentially a report per Service N...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Add Business Mappings Reconciliation scheduling to Cloudability

As a customer with many environments in Azure and AWS, we must run the business mappings reconciliation script on a regular basis. Apptio developers have supplied the script and the associated credentials for the Cloudability API and we have creat...
4 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted

Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

JDBC gateway supporting PostgreSQL database

GSMA accounts are requesting Netcool to integrate to PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system. Many accounts are looking to integrate to postgressql. I see Netcool impa...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Integrate the capability to connect to a vault to get target credentials

In many different organizations, the security teams are more and more pushing the use of vaults to store system accounts or system to system credentials. Turbonomic is connecting to many different infrastructure management systems like the Cloud A...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Ability to Export / Print / Save to PDF a dashboard

We'd like the ability export dashboards into excel or pdf's files to then share with stakeholders who do not need to login to TP. This would help other platforms where visibility into a project would be easier with an attachment.
over 9 years ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Display multiple owners for 1 application

For 1-to-many relationships, I’m looking for a feature that allows the “many” values to display on a single row in reporting (separated by a character, e.g. semi-colon) instead of just displaying an ellipses indicating Various. In addition to maki...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Exporting the list of agents including FQDN and related informaiton

1. How to export all agents, host FQDN, agent version and related informaiton using GUI? 2.Is there a API that I can use to export the Agent version, FQDN, agent-status into a file
7 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Edit access to Planning Application in Access Administration

As being provisioned as a user I would like to go into planning and edit a users cost object permissions and then edit the visibility to remove planning from their view.  The ultimate goal is to view planning data in ApptioBI but not have acc...
11 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Under review