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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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Finalizing a plan with unapproved Cost Objects

It appears that we are currently able to finalize a plan with unapproved Cost Objects (i.e. changes have been submitted by the end user but not yet approved by the CO Owner).  There may be instances where this is acceptable, but I would think...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Instana to support GPU monitoring on Openshift Container Platform

Hi, My customer ISBANK needs Instana to support GPU machines on openshift.Instana supports GPU monitoring for just standalone docker servers with GPUs. According to the result of a related case, we learned that there is no support for GPU monitori...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

OOB functionalities oriented to telecommunications companies

The event management solution, NOI has and is used by many companies in the telecommunications sector and we are promoting Cloud Pak for watson AIOPs as the evolution of traditional management, I believe it would be of greater impact if we had OOB...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Cell wise comment on the IT-Plannning Expenses page

Users have demanded an ability to add cell wise comments similar to Microsoft Excel. For e.g. If a expense has T&M billing then each cell will have a different forecast value and the user needs the ability to save comment on each cell. 
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
12 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Provide an UI view for the historical resolved alerts, stories WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager). There is a filter that let's you choose "Status = Resolved" but it is not showing result.

The customer will like to have some way to show the lasted alerts and stories been resolved because it could be shown on stories and alerts after. How to visualize resolved Stories? There is a filter that let's you choose "Status = Resolved" but i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide more information on-demand costs in the Recommendation download file for VMs

I would like to see both the on demand costs for the downsized machines both with ROI and without the ROI as it will be more helpful on calculation savings from the on demand
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Role Based Access Control - Add Functionallity to be able to limit access to specific Platforms (Vmware, HMC)

Hello.We would like to limit user access to see only specific applications and hosts. We create group and we can exclude/include scope for website, applications, mobileapps and kubernetes.But we cannot exclude Platforms view for HMC and Vmware. Re...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Certify Amazon Linux in AWS a supported platform for Netcool Impact and Netcool ObjectServer

Please certify Amazon Linux in AWS a supported platform for Netcool Impact and Netcool ObjectServer
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration