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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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Exclude unused objects from Cost modeled metric's Diagram view

As a TBMA, I would like to see only used/connected objects in the Diagram view of the Cost modeled metrics. Other views (eg Model Overview) of the metric already excluded unused/disconnected objects. Today, unused/disconnected objects appear in t...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Being able search Instana using the api name and then be able to drill down to related artifacts

When requests comes into Moneygram’s third-party API Gateway service, Moneygram would like the events to relay and show custom variables like the following three columns: “API”=“detailLookup”, RT (response time)=198ms, and service= https://ws.mone...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Add Project Setting to Enable/Disable Case-Sensitivity

As a TBMA, I would like the ability to disable case-sensitivity in CT. I often resort to forcing columns I use for lookups or data relationships to upper case to ensure they will work. However, I have never had a case where I wanted data to match ...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Add support for Blocking sessions - Cassandra

Verizon is requesting support for providing number of and list of blocking sessions in Cassandra.
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Add Project Setting to define an alternating row color for non-report tables in TBM Studio

As a TBMA, I would like to see alternating row colors for all non-report tables displayed throughout TBM Studio. The setting would be applied to any table not displayed on reports (inclusive of those displayed in Object views, Allocation Strategie...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Future consideration

Add Project Settings option for Number Formatting to apply to all tables (not shown via reports)

As a TBMA, I would like to see numbers displayed in non-report tables displayed in TBM Studio formatted with a thousands and/or decimal places, when defined in a new "Number Formatting" option in Project Settings. The formatting will not only assi...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 1 Not under consideration

Documentation Upgrades

Recently went through installing an Instana Kubernetes cluster and we had significant issues due to the documentation. It is too vague, misleading, and the examples given are often confusing or incomplete. We got answers from support individuals t...
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Not under consideration

Allow encryption key to be supported in DI

During a DI integration with identity provider (IDP). Notice if the encryption key is enabled at IDP, DI will not be able to authenticate the user. If disable encryption, user can be authenticated. Passing Token without encryption is a security lo...
12 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Netcool Operations Insights Log Analysis. Insight packs - ability to edit bespoke dashboards once created from search queries

End users can create their own dashboard views in Log Analysis using keyword search queries. Once the dashboards are created users don't have any way to then edit the dashboard, remove and save dashlets from the view. More flexibility is needed by...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review