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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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Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.

TS014338255: NodeJS App: Stacktrace: Queries are getting trimmed at random. Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

TLS connections to scrape Prometheus endpoints

Allow TLS connections for connections from Instana agents/sensors instances to scrape target prometheus endpoints
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Future consideration

Custom dashboard for application perspective grouping custom prometheus metrics

Up to v257 on-prem it is not possible to create custom dashoard widget panel under an application perspective for (prometheus) custom metrics (only standard metrics like calls, latency or errorneous).We want to to create custom dashboards over cus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Scraping of Prometheus endpoint metrics from C-Components

Affects Instana sensor and UI-backendAs a customer having to monitor custom metrics in a complex platform with heterogenous stack we need to monitor prometheus endpoint custom metrics provided be C-components, too.Please consider scraping Promethe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

ESTIMATED END of a critical chain in real time

Currently the CP does not update in real time the ESTIMATED END of a critical chain. Considering that we now use the 'CRITICAL JOBS' panel as the only forecasting tool for what concerns the conclusion of critical batches, having the information re...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

TADDM scan support for cygwin 3.4.9

As we tested, for now TADDM is supporting scan of hosts with cygwin only to version 3.0.7. But there is a security issue with this version, and the customer's administrator needs to use cygwin newer versions, for example 3.4.7 or 3.4.9. I think th...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

zCentric Agent Installation as root

We are trying to remove reliance on root to install our TWS agent. However, after installation, there is the error - the userid used to install TWS can't impersonate to the proid which we used to run the job. We are attempting to mitigate root acc...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Improve Comments functionality.

Comments alerts are not intuitive and it's not easy for users to know they have a comment waiting. Suggestion: 1) Comments should be displayed as soon as you open a report 2) Comments should be able to be linked to a group of users or an individua...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Help functionality improvements.

Currently, the only help available takes you to the generic Apptio hello screens. This is not useful for our users because it in no way reflects the CBA model or reports or with CBA specific information. Suggestion: Ability to add field descriptio...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Changing labels is considered customisation.

Allow for a filed name and field display name to allow changes of field display names. Introduce "Language settings" which enable labels to be configured without customing and OOTB report.
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted