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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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Subscribe to click-through report instead of base report

We have a base report that has two drill down (click-through) reports, so the structure goes: Cloud Spend Analysis Report (Base) Category report Subcategory Report A user can select a category from the base report to then navigate to the category ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Ability to use different service ID's for LDAP/IMPACT

Need ability to use different LDAP BindDN ID/pswd on all components (DASH WebSphere, IMPACT, Cognos). IMPACT user is also impacted with having to match the LDAP user. The Bank is required to rotate the passwords on yearly basis and trying to avoid...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add filters/ordering to assignments in detailed view

When a lot of users are assigned to 1 entity it is hard to track the order of adding them or sorting. It will be a good idea to add a sorting like with adding entities.
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Don't reset to page 1 after exiting from connection group

Let's say I'm on page 3 of connection groups. I open a connector group and work on it. Upon leaving the connector group/discarding the work, I should go back to the page I was on (page 3 in this example), rather than resetting to page 1. We've to ...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Connection Groups in Datalink should be searchable

We have 15 Connection groups in Datalink. We have to flip through pagination to search for a connection group, because only 10 results are displayed at once. I think it's very primitive to not have a search function the way we have currently in th...
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Ability to sort reference data as related to dropdown lists

I would like the ability to sort reference data (cost center, department, accounts, and projects) by code or names. Most of our codes are alpha and numeric (ex: C4310, C3320, I26B, I78A) but the dropdown lists usually sort by name resulting in a w...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

KeyDB Sensor

Customers using KeyDB
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

FTP monitoring in ace

In ACE, for many clients, we have numerous flows that receive input from files, especially via FTP. However, we have noticed that Instana is unable to trace these inputs. It would be beneficial to monitor this scenario as well.
11 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Future consideration

IMPROVE AND ALLOW MAP GEO CAPABILITY

1. I would like to duplicate an existing map from the explore->maps screen 2. Map permissions/sharing should mimic reports/shortcuts/etc. public/private/team/tenant/specific users 3. Topology widgets have no way to not be in 'GEO' mode which ne...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration