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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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Show all out of box Project attributes in IIP

Currently, the only Project attribute fields you can show via Show/Hide columns in the expense view for IIP is Code, Name, and Project Group. Customers need the ability to view all associated attributes that are out of the box like Description, Pr...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Add exclusive edit permission for specified columns to Controlling / TBMO

Our Controllers and TBMAs want a custom column that is only editable for them and not to other users. This would allow to add comments and annotations that cannot be overwritten.  Or simply a yes/no flag that says "checked by Controlling" tha...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Exclude Local FileSystem from monitoring

Currently, there is only option to INCLUDE REMOTE filesystems to be monitored within Instana agent configuration file. Customer is looking for the option to EXCLUDE LOCAL filesystem from monitoring. They do have some filesystems which are nearly f...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

Netcool Operations Insights Log Analysis. Insight packs - ability to edit bespoke dashboards once created from search queries

End users can create their own dashboard views in Log Analysis using keyword search queries. Once the dashboards are created users don't have any way to then edit the dashboard, remove and save dashlets from the view. More flexibility is needed by...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

conman to authenticate users through WAS/WLP and retrieve LDAP group to user information and authorize using group in assigni

DWC and composer are able to authenticate LDAP users and authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles accordingly, but conman doesn't authenticate using LDAP hence can't authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles. Separate ACLs...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

What-if planing option to evaluate impact if a percentage of VMs upsize

Would like to be able to run a plan that evaluates cluster capacity if VMs in an automation hotadd policy were to upsize. Within the plan be able to on a slide basis evalutate if 10,20 etc. % were to consume the limit of the hot add policy. This w...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Dynatrace discovered standalone server hardware (bare metal server) metrics are being collected yet Turbonomic doesn't present that hardware in the UI either as a VM or Host.

As a unified interface for all infrastructures for On-Prem, Cloud, Storage, Network, and Applications, the only missing part of the unified view is the standalone hardware server. This could be a server box, blade, on bare metal with an operating ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration