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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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Custom Reference data fields dependency-ITP

Custom Reference data fields dependency in ITP- would like an option to allow automated population of the fields based on entries to other fields which have related content.
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

How to set a password for the KeyStores and TrustStores when deploying IWA with Kubernetes/Helm Charts.

The password used to create the KeyStore and TrustStore is randomly generated. Even though it can be retrieved from the env variable SSL_PASSWORD or decoding the stash (sth) file, a facility must be provided to set it to a desired password. The fo...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Update ITM Situation Forwarder

hasn't been updated since 6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0003 and its functionality depends on a 32-bit version of libnsl, which has been dropped in newer versions of Operating Systems, e.g. SLES 15, RHEL 8.Thus, (ITM Situation Forwarder) stops to work when OS...
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Support boards with many-to-many relations for vertical and horizontal lines

Customers who wants to create certain boars, however values many to many are unavailable if other lane has also many-to-many relations - for example Period and Teams - then 2 boards needs to be created
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Additional ActiveMQ metrics

Additional ActiveMQ metrics (Memory Percent Usage, Store Usage, Health, Current Status, etc.)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Edit access to Planning Application in Access Administration

As being provisioned as a user I would like to go into planning and edit a users cost object permissions and then edit the visibility to remove planning from their view.  The ultimate goal is to view planning data in ApptioBI but not have acc...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to events/alerts/etc

Would like the ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to event/alerts. This would allow us to add more Application Perspective's to one alert instead of creating multiple of the same alert to cover the Application Perspective's that...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists