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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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Allow Multiple Apptio Planning Instances

We have multiple Apptio Planning in different environments but Apptio doesn't allow user to access multiple planning in different browser tabs. It's inconvenient when we are working or comparing different planning instances at the same time.
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Support Fortigate VDOM-aware discovery and unidirectional LLDP stitching in ITNM

Currently ITNM discovery for Fortinet Fortigate firewalls does not fully work as expected. The product does not correctly recognize VDOM contexts, which results in duplicate or incorrect interface IP addresses (extra octet, e.g. 10.76.194.58.14). ...
13 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Jobs failed due to Liberty restart needs to be reprocessed post activity instead of going into FAIL.

Dynamic jobs are put in FAIL state after a Liberty or broker restart if at the moment of the restart they were in WAIT/INTRO state (being processed by the broker component but not yet sent to an agent for job submission). This causes lots of manua...
13 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to have separate Team Workflows even if there is more than one Final State in the default Workflow for User Stories

Allowing separate Team level workflows when there are two final states would allow us to still have a Cancelled Final State and a Done Final State, but still allow teams to expand for additional states on Workflows to better process their work. Ke...
19 days ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
19 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
19 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
25 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 3 Functionality already exists

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted

add support to run DA agents using Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows

At the moment it's possible to specify AD account, by specifying -uname and -domain parameters during twsinst execution. We would like to request the ability to use Group Managed Service Account as well - twsinst would need to allow us to not prov...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Set Two-Factor Authentication from the Administrator User

What do we expect?: The option to set "Two-factor authentication" (in Settings - User Settings - Personal Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings - Two-factor authentication) in the Instana SaaS Backend ca...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release