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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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Automatic use of certificate for Infrastructure management

When accessing Infrastructure management, a self-signed certificate is currently used. Infrastructure automation appears to discovery a certificate from the OpenShift cluster and works well, but Infrastructure management reports a the site as "not...
8 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Totals, sub-totals, summaries for cards on views

Calculate and show totals, subtotals across filtered cards Show totals for columns in list views (in headers or footers) Show totals for cells, for column/row headers in board views Use them to summarize total effort, time spent/remain, co...
almost 5 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Add Build to Batch Actions Panel

Instead of having to click into individual user stories, features, etc. or using the search functionality in the Build detail view, allow the Build to edited in bulk. It is a common scenario to add a group of user stories to a Build rather than on...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Add 2FA to Delete Vendor Credentials

When there are multiple admins for CLDY, there is a risk of unintentionally deleting a CSP account's credentials with a single click on the delete icon. While alerts are available for such actions, they are mostly reactive and do not prevent the i...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Allow the Instana agent to monitor CP4BA

Creating this idea but we also have created a case b/c we do not know if this is a defect or enhancement req. Problem Description:Currently, Instana cannot monitor CP4BA. CP4BA has made their container image filesystems readonly and the Instana ag...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...

Column Order in Tables with Editable Table Step

The column ordering cannot be updated in tables with a transform step, such as an Editable Table step. The data in the final Table step is displayed with a different column order than the source editable table. ApptioOne should be updated to addre...
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Mule ESB version 4.x

Currently, Instana can monitoring Monitoring Mule ESB version 3.x, however, version 3.x is already out of support: Ref: Instana -> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mule-esb Ref Mulesoft: -&...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

WebLogic - monitor Web deployments

We are using WebLogic servers. Recently we had an incident in which a web deployment was not loaded correctly. Currently it's not possible in Instana to alert when a web deployment is not loaded. A support ticket was made and they suggested to cre...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

To be able to reset a JOB "estimated duration time" in the Database .

This would be useful, in quickly resetting JOBs that run for excessive time, then revert back to normal running conditions . We were recommended to create a RFE for this enhancement
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review