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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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Ability to trigger an event rule using or. Job A abends OR Job B abends, trigger rule.

Currently we have to create 2 separate event rules to do this. If we are hoping for the exact same action based on 2 separate jobs' events, why not allow us to choose Job A OR Job B in the event?
9 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Extend Instana Terraform Provider to Support RBAC with Teams & Roles

Instana is introducing Teams and Roles for RBAC, but the Terraform provider does not yet support managing these entities. For large organizations, managing RBAC as code is crucial for maintaining consistency, security, and quality control. Extendi...
9 days ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Add in dropdown all entity states for global entities (cards).

Currently dropdown for cards filter shows Initial Planned and Final, for non-global includes all entity states, this option not available for global entities.

Hostname For Outbound SMTP Connections Should Be Configurable

The current implementation of php SMTP mailer does not set the hostname for the HELO message, which results in Message-IDs ending with 'localhost.localdomain'. This cannot be changed, and may result in the alert mailer not working under some SMTP ...
17 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Is a defect

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
17 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Azure SQL Server License Improvements

1. Detect SQL Server Licenses when deployed from Azure Marketplace 2. Distinguish between AHUB for Windows and AHUB for SQL Server Current Limitation: All or nothing. If Windows AHUB license is detected, it is applied to all license types includin...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Apptio DataLink Adaptor for Planning Analytics (On-Prem)

Hi Team, Clients today are having to manually extract and load up data from Apptio into their Planning Analytics instance on-prem. Currently there is no intention to move to using Planning Analytics Cloud (SaaS). The client has strict data soverei...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Proper Version Control of Scheduling Objects

Currently, the version control of scheduling objects is directly tied to the audit logs. This means that if you modify an object older than the value set in the global option auditHistory (default is 400 days), you lose the ability to see what was...
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to schedule the enabling and disabling of calculations in Calc Management

Currently to either disable to enable stage calculating through Calc Management (Project Calculation Management) this is needed to be done manually. The idea would be the ability to set a schedule to either enable or disable stage calcs for indivi...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1