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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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Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
7 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Option to Export as a .CSV out of TBM Studio

As an admin, I export data directly out of TBM Studio for our users to review and upload themselves into IT Planning. As the default file type when exporting out of TBM Studio is .xslx and the required file type to import into IT Planning is .csv,...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Add tracing support for Borland Delphi

Ability to trace Borland Delphi client calls to SQL Server, perhaps an intermediate component that discovers transactions without the need to modify the application.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Need API to gain secret from instance so it does not need to be stored in metadata. Related to OAuth2

We would like the ability to dynamically get a client secret for an OAuth2 client using an API call. We have many tools and processes that rely on the Turbo API and this would allow us to more easily enable automation and avoid the need to manage ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Add option to add EDP to effective rate

Add option to add EDP to effective rate. This would show a more accurate savings cost.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

IS IWS 10.1.05 Software SUPPORTED on an Oracle TDE Database ?

IS IWS 10.1.05 Software SUPPORTED on an Oracle TDE Database ?
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
7 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Not under consideration

Set the default location to the same page when copying a visualisation

When copying a page in Apptio BI, the default page is the next page. To copy to the same page you need to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list to select 'Current Page'. I would like the 'Current Page' to be the first item in the list, maki...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Enabling Traceability on Azure Key Vault

The information provided today by Instana is not enough to determine when a problem occurs at the transaction level in Azure Key Vault, the information regarding performance and configuration metrics could be complemented by reviewing in depth the...
7 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Future consideration