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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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Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cost Allocation and Sharing / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Schedule DataLink connectors by working days

Many of our customers manage the upload of the files in based on the working days, for example actuals are available on the 6th working day of the month Datalink allows this to be done only based on days and not working days, which can be affected...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

Make 'current_view' dropdown "stick" to the top of the current page

Hello, I want to submit a solution for making the 'current_view' dropdown stick on the top of the current page. I already made a proposal for fixing this which would make minor changes to the frontend. It will only move elements and make them stic...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Enhancing Maintenance mode bug

When someone puts 1 device into maintenance mode it only shows the first 6 digits of the device name. However, many clients have similar long naming conventions and you canno't differentiate between devices with the same 6 digit prefix.
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Is a defect

The ability to Rebrand the Cloudability Environment

It allows companies to leverage established platforms and deliver services without extensive in-house development. It improves customer experience and responsiveness to requests. The ability to permit customization of the web interface to enable b...
8 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Target file import possibility

Please add functionality that allows the import of the Targets file. In other parts of Apptio planning, such as 'Reference Data', we have similar functionality; for example, we can import 'Labor Rates' (screenshot attached).”
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

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...
8 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...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration