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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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Focus Option for Folders

I appreciate the improved search functionality and its clear results display. I frequently use it when concentrating on specific tasks and associated views. However, as a Targetprocess administrator, my left-hand menu becomes cluttered. Adding a "...
13 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Submitted

Roadmaps without actual start date display

Our company creates high-level product roadmaps at the beginning of each year, using packages as a key component. Currently, the roadmap displays both planned and actual start dates for each package. While tracking deviations from the plan is valu...

API endpoint for User Management to allow customers to configure user profile characteristics such as auto-e-mails

Currently all users have summary e-mails enabled by default and only option is for all users to receive or all users not receive. Having a n API endpoint would allow us to programatically edit user profiles to provide a better user experience.
2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 2 Under review

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
about 2 months ago in Instana 1 Under review

Target health check “TEST button”

Hi Team :-) In Legacy PMC product we have a TEST button which can check the health of the Target. I think it would be amazing to have the same in Turbonomic Here below how it works: After you run TEST, and let's say, there is any issue with List r...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 3 Future consideration

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
14 days ago in Instana / Agent 1 Submitted

The NOI included OpenLDAP should allow authentication against a local repository as well to one or more remote LDAP repos in parallel

The NOI included OpenLDAP does only support standalone OR proxy mode, but not both in parallel. Common OpenLDAP implementations do allow this hybrid mode easily. Especially technical users like impactadmin are often not allowed in LDAP repos, only...
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Integrate Alibaba Cloud SAAS monitoring data collection

Many users use Alibaba Cloud SAAS or PAAS services, and we need to use Instana to integrate Alibaba Cloud related indicator data for alarm and AI analysis. IBM official development is required to integrate Alibaba Cloud service data.
15 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted