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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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Cloning/Splitting a user story or feature would also copy over the acceptance criteria

Entering new AC on every story is time consuming, especially since it is its own object in ATP and requires extra clicks to reach. Having the ability to copy the AC from one story to the next and reuse or only need to edit would save a lot of time
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Customize generated webhooks prefix: name and size

Our French bank client uses a specific naming convention for openshift projects: <business-project>-<product>-<env>. While deploying an ICE pilot in their lab environment, a project name is 22 characters long. Prefixed with the 4...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Return missing details of graphical view in workload designer

In version 9.4 of the Workload Scheduler we used to be able to see the earliest start time and conditional dependency criteria on the graphical view. This is missing in version 10.2.2 (we recently upgraded) and we miss it. As long as I'm asking, i...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Add the Friendly Region Name in workload planning

currently in the workload plannig there is only the region coding (e.g. eu-south1) and not the friendly name (e.g. Milan) for both clouds. Having the friendly name present would simplify the region search even for the inexperienced and speed up th...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Under review

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Do not allow report users to select more alternative dimensions than are supported by a visual

Problem: Right now if you configure a graph visual such as a stacked bar with a primary dimension and multiple alternate dimensions the alternate dimension menu the user interacts with is a multi-select in which the user can check the boxes beside...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Organize roadmap cascading from parent to child entities

End users
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Cloudability Access Logs / Report views by user

Much like how Apptio Costing has a usage project within an environment, The customer would like something similar for Cloudability / BI. Customer would like the ability to see which users are viewing which reports and at what rate (ex: John Doe vi...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Reports, Dashboards / User Management & Login 1 Under review