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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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Manage all costs objects owned at one time

People who manage multiple cost objects have to manage each cost object separately today.  Customer would like the ability for users to manage all of the cost objects that they own at once.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

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

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...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Re : gNMI - Catalyst 9800 IOT Sensor and Wifi Metric collection

C https://richardatkin.com/post/2022/03/22/Streaming-environmental-air-quality-data-from-the-Cisco-Catalyst-9136-WiFi6e-Access-Point.html https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/technical-reference/catalyst-9800-programmabil...
8 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Planned for future release

Graphical Representation of all Jobstreams in the WorkLoad Designer

We would like to have a graphic representation of all the Jobstreams present in the database. Currently, this representation is possible in the current plan but we do not have the equivalent on the Jobstreams present in the WorkLoad Designer
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

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+
12 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration