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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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Dynamic navigation option from a table - links to specific reports depending on table row contents

Looking for a way of providing user dynamic and tailorable navigation to specific use case reports from a single source.  In this case to get to use cases for specific Service Names in the service taxonomy - potentially a report per Service N...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

ASM servicenow observer to provide improved filtering of data either within the observation or post collection prior to insertion

It's useful because at the moment we have limited filtering in the filer API request, it applies to all classes being discovered and is applied to the API call made to servicenow. So you get a choice of Include or Exclude, but not the ability to c...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Allow more than one servicenow observer job to run which will allow us to improve observation times and more control over when/what we collect

At the moment whilst you can create more than one servicenow observer job, it is pretty useless as even though they have different job names and a different set of classes associated in discovery what tends to happen is that you might have a job t...
12 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Servicenow-Observer to provide ability to discover relationships tables separately from resource discovery

At present when discovering resources from servicenow we specify the tables to collect data from and have to be explicit with the parent and child classes because whilst resources can be discovered from the parent class and it traverses the childr...
12 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Alert for device discovery

When the devices were not being discovered properly the user is unable to find out until unless they are facing any issue. So, I'm thinking to have an alert for the device discovery, which helps to notify the user when the discovery was stuck. Thi...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Variance Reporting in IT Planning

Objective: Reverse the variance signs in IT Planning/Expenses to show a positive variance as a positive number and a negative variance as a negative number. Current State: Currently in Apptio, the variances in IT Planning/Expenses show that a neg...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Display all affected MQ MFT Transfers and their TransferID metric values in an event or alert details.

Currently the list of all affected transfers and their IDs are present when viewing the IBM MQ MFT Agent dashboard during an incident/issue window, but they are NOT shown in the incident/issue Event or an Alert that triggered because of the Event....
8 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request: Enhanced Debug Logging for Netcool JDBC Gateway

I am raising this request an enhancement to the Netcool JDBC Gateway. Currently, there is no mechanism to identify problematic ObjectServer column information in JDBC Gateway debug logs. When issues arise with ObjectServer columns, such as varchar...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review