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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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Authentication options

Since GitHub has been integrated and used in Instana, we can have GitHub as one of the authentication method in Instana. This process can avoid multiple AD/SSO configurations in tools/applications.
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Allow Mailman Server to continue processing other servers after a failed server

Please refer to We have 20 servers under the control of a single Mailman server , Which processes the message queue. We had a failure on 1 server , which in turn caused ALL other server messages NOT to be processed. which eventually IWS believed t...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Time data needed at the call details panel

It is not easy to know the starting time and the latency for calls, when the timeline is not shown in the analyzer, i.e., for big traces. My proposal is to show, in the call details panel, at what time the call started and which was its latency. T...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Synthetic monitoring enhanced permission

Viewer permission will be able to view the Synthetic monitoring configuration details that may contain a username/password to login to the application. Request to create enhanced permission or set up additional HBAC permission for this?
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

Allow multiple Applicable Device Filters for ITNCM-Compliance Rules

When customers create a compliance Rule, they are only offered a single Applicable Device Filter.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify OS Type in ITNCM

ITNCM is based upon the concept of distinguishing between devices using Vendor/Type/Model/OS, however, this does not sufficiently take into account that there can be different OS Types.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

Variance Comparison Between Budget and Forecast

Ability to do variance comparisons between budget and forecast, or forecast to forecast, in order to create waterfall charts 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

ITP with ADM - Automatically Update Reference Data

@Sheetal Dehadaraya Recently, we did a demo of ADM to the customer A2A. The customer likes the feature "Automatically publish reference data imported from Cost Transparency". A2A would like to have also a feature for "Automatically Update Referenc...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify multiple VTMOS for a native command set

I would like to be able to create NCS on Cisco/*/*/* instead of having to mandatory select a Type
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Stop evaluating an expression when one definition is false

Minimise the checks directly on the device, by stopping evaluation when the first definitions are false.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration