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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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ITP Contracts tab - There should be more options for automatically accruing the contracts

More options for automatically accruing the contracts: annual, quarterly (with the possibility of setting the initial payment date).There need to be more options to spread the contract costs. Sometimes the payment is quarterly and contracts tab do...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Add Kinesis Firehose Cloudwatch Metric to AWS Sensor

Hi all, Currently, only Kinesis Data streams but not Kinesis Data Firehose streams are supported by the AWS sensor. Since our platform is also using Kinesis Data Firehose streams, an integration is much appreciated. Thanks in advance and kind rega...
12 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Allow polling of Strings via SNMP

Today Palo Alto Firewalls running in HA mode can be monitored via OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.1.11 to see their current state of HA. The values returned are strings and can be "disabled", "active", or "passive" Other vendors like F5 have used inte...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

SOL005 observer request

A dynamic virtualized network topology in telco needs sol005 interface.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Plan Migration to show a cost comparison between migrating to the different cloud providers

Instead of a user creating 3 plans (one for each provider) and moving between dashboards to compare. A customer wanted to see a single dashboard comparing the possible migrations to all clouds to decide on the best one.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

Surface Azure tenant ID in OOTB dimensions

Request to Surface Azure tenant ID in OOTB dimensions. So we have a way to report using Azure Tenant as a filter.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Needs more information

Choose language independent of Browser Setting

The language in Web GUI is set through the WebBrowser. Due to this each user is able to specify the language by himself. Tables which are using a sort ordermay variy in different languages. Due to this we would like to specify the used language gl...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Change release marker display size limitation to configurable size

Please see also Ticket TS016592330 Currently it is not possible to enlarge the mouseover section . Please consider an enabling feature to be included in the upcoming releases.
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Include VIO Servers in the PowerVM support

I think it is important to support VIO Servers in the PowerVM support. At least add an option to allow the user to include VIO Servers. We used to have data/recommendations for VIOS when we were using Densify, so we knew we need to right-sized the...