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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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Only display full day of information in charts

Often the most recent day has a tendency to look like a reduction when you do not have the full days' worth of data in the tool. The ability to remove the last day or set charts to -1 day would help reduce confusion with end users
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Extract information from the rules generated by the temporal training

Hello,Through the AIOps interface, we can view how a specific temporal rule was generated, including the information about the alerts that were grouped and the frequency at which they were found. However, in a scenario where, for example, tens of ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Needs more information

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
about 2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Default API URL for reports should include all rows of data instead of only displayed rows

When copying API URLs, currently the default is to copy only the displayed rows (first page) of the report data when the Component Information URL is copied. "&rowCount=1000000000" must be added on to include the entire report. It would be mor...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

AWS - Add additional RI & SP Metrics

Per Case #00352871, requested to submit Enhancement, as the metrics I need in Cloudability/BI are not available. NetUnblendedCost, ReservationNetEffectiveCost & SavingsPlanNetEffectiveCost
22 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Future consideration

Views - Allow by Seller

Current View options only allows by Vendor, which restricts us from filtering out AWS Marketplace. If we could create a View by Seller, this would remove Marketplace purchases
22 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

BI - Reuse of colors/Edit colors

Due to reuse of colors, can’t identify legend, due to color duplication on charts. Color palettes need to editable, as when trying to stay consistent, say with a given Vendor on multiple charts, the color should remain consistent, not vary each time.
22 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Views - Can't see who created/using

Admins can't see who created a given View and who is using. We are left with stale Views do to not being able to validate if still in use or if a View is owned by someone that is no longer with company or changed roles. Also a way to easily downlo...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
22 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted