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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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When planning is in maintenance please have a dialog box stating "Maintenance in progress"

Team that have users from all over the globe that have working hours during the maintenance windows. Because it is their normal working hours and the system is down with no explanation it causes people to think something is wrong with the system a...
about 8 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
about 9 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

The JSON Audit files should be valid JSON

The audit files that IWS stores in JSON format may not always be valid JSON documents. Specifically, the value for "actionDependentContents" may make the document unparsable. For example, in this record, the quotes in the value of "actionDependent...
about 10 hours ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
about 17 hours ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Request to Add IP Address Restriction for Instana Tenants

[Request] Datadog already has an IP address restriction*, but Instana does not. *https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/org_settings/ip_allowlist/ Our customers have strict security requirements, so they have set up a jump server specifical...
about 22 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
about 23 hours ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

The federal reserve is depreciating AES-128. They can use it now, but in the near future it will need an exception. can only use approved cryptographic measures. Support to customer: Hello Richard, I don't believe there are plans in place to updat...
1 day ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

More Enhanced reporting for Anomaly Detection

Customer is able to see multiple anomalies in his tool. It's difficult for the customer to identify from which cost center the anomaly is coming from. Currently in the tool if we create a report for a specific anomaly, we have to add dimensions ma...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Drill Option to be enabled with Net Spend Feature when selecting compare in the time range

Customer wants to create a report which first will report with Net Spend on a Account Name or Cost Center Basis. Once we can identify a cost center with the biggest net spend. We should be able to drill into the table by service name to understand...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted