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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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Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable)

Need to mask portion of the request path url (Path Variable). for example : https://my.domain/accounts/324345/status want to mask the path variable - 324345
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Enhanced Excel Export Function

Add an option to add an "Export to Excel" button to any report, including modal pages. the button should export all tables in the report.  Allow to configure the default name or prefix of the excel export file. for example, "Application TCO P...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Embedded/reusable report component

I would like the ability to create one report and re-use it inside multiple reports. this could be like an HTML view that is displaying an existing report. the use case is that if we need to make changes to the report component we can do it only i...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners with UI or API

How do I identify the view “creator” amongst the owners? There is no indicator, that I’m aware of, for who created the view and this is an issue we would like to avoid in the future.
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Support for Branch Description Text in Studio

Branches are usually created for a specific reason and many clients archive branches for later reference. It becomes difficult for the users/admins to recall the purpose the branch was created when the archived branch gets too old but still needs ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Consolidation of Notification Capabilities in Automation Rules

Currently there are 3 ways to create notifications in TP: 1) The notification settings for each entity via Process settings 2) The notification rules capability 3) @mentions in comments Number 3 is the only one available from Automation rules and...
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

IBM Netcool Omnibus Kafka Message Bus Probe to support protobuf message format parsing.

We are currently looking for an option to have an enhancement for Kafka message bus Probe, to be able to parse protobuf message format. We were implementing a new integration with the Nokia FSS system’s Kafka environment, using the Kafka message b...
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Filter by custom terms in quick custom filters

Currently, it's possible to filter by the custom terms that belong to the default process. Example: However, this doesn't work for any terms of non-default processes
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

Display More Than 14 Days in Board Lanes

It would be useful to be able to display more than 14 days between Past and Future when a date field is used for vertical lanes.Example: Planned End Date
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Instana needs to send notifications/alerts when active directory certificates expire in OpenShift on Z

Without this notification, it's a manual effort to keep checking for expired certificates
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Synthetic 1 Under review