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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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Define which Asset Classes are available for new plans, and which legacy

My organisation has changed the useful life of software assets from 5 years to 3 years, but the class is still the same. As a Budget Process Owner, I have to show the expected depreciation of 5 year assets from my asset register. However, I also n...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 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

Provide a means to automate creating NOI Incidents from Events in NOI - to be used for the customer for a consolidated view of thier issue with a easily added URL

Customer coming to NOI Dashboard with lot of events - can be overwhelmed and will not want to use the noise interface - while the consolidated view in the NOI Incident Module is consolidated to thier issue(s).
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 2 Future consideration

Snapshot Forecast Version compare across any periods in A1

As a Service Owner I want to be able to compare my forecast version across any periods (i.e. P01-P12) in A1.  So, that I can see what is my forecast version in any period compare to any other period.  In addition, the version should not ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Calc Explorer: Detail Export

As a TBM Admin, I’d like to be able to export the Calc Explorer reports underlying data so that I can create custom /granular level detailed views to prioritize & manage the list of model performance enhancements.  I’ll know it’s com...
11 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration