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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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RunBook Automation - Scheduling Utility

Why is it useful? - This will be useful as it will allow for runbooks to be executed on a timed basis from within the tool Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this as it will increase the inbuilt...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Re-Implement the Gauge Chart

Currently, Gauge Chart is not supported in R12. It would be great to Re-Implement the Gauge Chart which gives a way to quickly see how well a actual is performing against a target.
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Cloudability | Optimize -> Rightsizing -> Filters -> Status

Under Optimize - > Rightsizing menu under Azure there are resources displayed which has tickets created and tickets are in Done state. Would be great to have opportunity to filter out (exclude alll Done tickets) tickets with status "Done". That...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Not under consideration

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add Targets from IT Planning to Apptio BI Reporting

We want to see cost center vs. targets available in the BI tool. Often, our forecast are greater than our annual target. We want to be able to report on risk on a full year basis (when will the target be fully consumed - OPEX & CAPEX). Adding ...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Make it a rightsizing preference option to allow changes to/from confidential SKUs

Currently the rightsizing engine does not provide the capability to control recommendations between confidential and non-confidential SKUs in Azure. I can't imagine many customers want to flip flop between the two types of SKU as Microsoft prices ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration