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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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Encrypt password while performing the core installation of Netcool/Impact

When trying to install the Netcool/Impact core Server and GUI components, we see we are unable to use the encrypted passwords in the silent response file, when we define the encrypted passwords in the silent response file, we see accounts are gett...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Bookmarks in Apptio CT: Ability to save reports in Apptio to custom filters (Saved State)

User will select few filters in Apptio to view the relevant data . The user wants the filter to remain in saved state even after he logs off to come back and see similar views. Can Apptio provide an option to provide the user with a custom save op...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners with UI or API

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners? There is no indicator, that I’m aware of, for who created the view and this is an issue we would like to avoid in the future.
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Provide Customers the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget

Customer would like the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget. For example, one need for this would be for the Customer to set the country to "Oman" and also set the User ID to a ...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Add support for Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi is one of the popular storage vendor widely used across enterprises and currently there is no target integration available.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Suppoert Hardware Management Console (HMC) v9 and 10 or higher

I currently have lost the ability to discover HMC as the Unix admins have updated the product to v10. TADDM currenly only supports v8 or lower. Need to support v10+
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Tabs to Export in Excel the Same as displayed in Apptio

When exporting a report from Apptio to Excel, it is requested that tabs in the report keep the same display name as displayed in Apptio, to streamline analysis for stakeholders. 
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Exclude unused objects from Cost modeled metric's Diagram view

As a TBMA, I would like to see only used/connected objects in the Diagram view of the Cost modeled metrics. Other views (eg Model Overview) of the metric already excluded unused/disconnected objects. Today, unused/disconnected objects appear in t...
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration