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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 navigating ApptioBI via the Cloudability Standard tile from the homepage do not show the “Current View” menu when in a report that does not utilize any Cloudabilty* datasets.

Problem: Right now when you are interacting with Apptio BI reports via the Cloudability Standard interface (https://app.apptio.com/cloudability?environmentId=c0b954ad-1f51-5ca9-b232-b91dc9226a3c#/apptiobi/reports/all) the “Current View” menu alway...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Hi - Understanding that these fields were just recently added to the instance of IT Planning, and is a very welcome update. We would like these fields added to the processing, when publishing plans from IT Planning to CT. These fields will help identify updates made to our metadata. We were expecting these fields to be included in the push, as a majority of the other fields are included.

It would be beneficial as we can use these fields for additional processing in our reporting environment in cost transparency. In addition, I was basically expecting these fields to already have been included in the push, as all of the other field...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Cloning/Splitting a user story or feature would also copy over the acceptance criteria

Entering new AC on every story is time consuming, especially since it is its own object in ATP and requires extra clicks to reach. Having the ability to copy the AC from one story to the next and reuse or only need to edit would save a lot of time
8 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Submitted

Interactive Performance: Support far more than 40 simultaneous users

Large customers support multiple teams in around-the-clock operations across multiple disciplines. While not all users will be focused on the same elements within the UI (spreading themselves by role across Incident, Inventory, Performance, Automa...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

RBAC/Multi-Tenancy - Extend Data Filtering Capabilities across the product

The Event/Incident and Topology filtering/exclusion mechanisms are useful but do not extend beyond these datatypes. To support true multi-tenancy and/or data-based RBAC the AIOps product must also provide mechanisms to ensure users can only see va...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Cloudability Sustainability Metrics

Supporting both Operational as well as Embodied emissions (Similiar to what we see in Azure emissions reporting)
9 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Need a way to detect that the input rate on a queue is exceeding the output rate

The customer has applications where the consuming application components occasionally have problems. They don't consume the messages off the queue fast enough. If this happens for a very short period of time, it is not a problem. But, when it occu...
22 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Managing policies through APIs

The temporal training resulted in a really large set of insights, with over 50 thousand results. As the operators review the generated policies, we need enable, disable, or achive policies frequently. However, doing that through the UI is really t...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Functionality already exists