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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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Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Submitted

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Direct access to Team entity

My question is more to see if there is a way to have a non admin user that is not associated with a team to be able to modify that team? Is there something that can be done with permissioning and granting access to certain entities that would allo...
over 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 1 Future consideration

Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

Organization is depreciating AES-128. They can use it now, but in the near future it will need an exception. can only use approved cryptographic measures. Support to customer: Hello Richard, I don't believe there are plans in place to update the W...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Include the Connection count metric for Azure SQL recommendations

Rightsizing - We need Cloudability to have the number of connections metric for Azure SQL Database recommendations - "Succesful connections" in the details of the recommendations
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Need “Overwrite” capability in the Custom Calendar feature in Time Settings

Time Settings -> Custom Calendar feature only has “Append” option available to update dates.If we have to change the custom calendar dates(that we have already included in the file and checked in), we always have to rollback several days/months...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

All tables should be able to be sorted, filtered, shared and exportable to csv

Since there is not a way to inject custom fields/values such as a note that a specific agent, event, smart alert is a work in progress, or associated to a specific project task or incident response, we have to be able to create order listing of th...
8 months ago in Instana / Common 2

Citizen's Bank Enhancement Requests for IBM Apptio Targetprocess / ADM. Additional information listed in the desciption section.

1) Automatically add Team Iterations (TI) to a new pod if Planning Interval (PI) already exist for neighborhood the pod is being added to, 2) Automatically add Planning Interval (PI) to a new neighborhood if neighborhood is being added to a Divisi...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Submitted