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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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instana to support monitoring of Axway and Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Working hours also on Flow widget

Hi, we are in POC with HCL and they would like to have "working hours" setting also to work with flow widget. At the moment it works with "performance" widget but when we try to add flow widget to the report we cannot see working hours reflected i...
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration

Enhance Line Item Code function to replace all and retain Line Item Codes

We reload our Labor and Assets data monthly in ITP.  This ensures that resources that are gone are removed, resources that change depts are moved and new resources are added.   We began to use Line Item Codes as a way to maintain a ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files vs only having it send to January and replacing monthly files. When loading files from ITP to CT would like the flexibility to have it drop in different months. For example Jan – drop...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Add agent support for Solaris Branded zones

FTAs and DAs are supported on Solaris native Global and Local zones, but are not currently supported on Solaris Branded zones.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

From Project Explorer's Tables list, add "Unused Object" option for filtering

As a TBMA, I would like to identify which objects are not used by any model. This would allow me to easily locate objects missing inbound/outbound allocations and determine actions (eg delete the object, add driver, add allocation). To identify th...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Display IP Address on Comparison Table

On comparison table, user can gather the overview condition of host utility, with hostname as its identifier. However, to validate and further troubleshoot the host condition, user will logon to the server by using IP address. Therefore knowing th...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration