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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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Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Provide scheduling recommendations

Would be great if Cloudability would provide recommendations on what (compute) resources to put on a schedule (e.g. start/stop on the weekends) and if we can also create a Cloudability issue for this that enables us to track the savings.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

MSP are manually processing AWS MAP credits, and they need an automated way of achieving this.

AWS offers an extremly complex way of receiving credits back for workloads that are being migrated to Aws from onprem. This complexity is by design to make sure for most part that credits are never realized. This requires enormous tagging of workl...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

Providing limited access of Targetprocess to our Clients (External Users)

BMM needs to provide login access to our external users/clients so they can view Bugs/DIRTS, change statuses, and add/view attachments without compromising other clients' data. Each client should only be able to view and edit information assigned ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

Please add the Workstations Status code on DWC Listing workstations. eg MDM (IJ MDEA) or FTA (LTI JW MD) BMDM (LTI JW MD A)

quick and easy view to see if the workstations have not got their correct status codes. Also we know where the EventProcessor is , without clicking multiply times to discover it. (simple GUI)
5 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Integration: Ability to retrieve Topology from Cisco DNA Center & Cisco Prime

Global Ford teams use Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime across their manufacturing sites to know location/relationships/performance/etc of all network related entities located within manufacturing plants. Due to no integration between CP4AIOps and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Map Visualization for reporting

Workforce accounts for a majority of spend and being able to view it in a map view to understand footprint and cost per area would be very helpful. View attached image for a reference. Would like granularity not just based on country but by states...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Gateway for Message Bus (XML) should support replication of secondary tables

The gateway and probe for message bus is getting more and more important on all customer sites to receive alerts and to transfer ObjectServer data to external customer systems. Most customer implementations contain secondary tables which hold diff...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists