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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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Restrict Import Financials, Import Contracts, Import Asset, Import Labor functionality

We would like to restrict the access for Cost Center Owners to not be allowed to Import csv's into the various IT Planning tabs.  They should be allowed to Export but we have encountered many times where they have incorrectly imported files r...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Download Source JSON Formatted Data

Apptio Datalink supports integration to JSON formatted data sources such as the ServiceNow OOTB connectors. This data is saved in Apptio One project tables in the upload step, however this JSON format differs to the original upload. It is not poss...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow Responsible Role for Team Workflow

It would be helpful if the Responsible Role for states in team workflows could be managed per team workflow.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Allow capability to change TimeZone

Please allow capability to change the timezone. We have multiple teams globally and each of them see instana which shows time in their own timezone.But while reviewing together, most of the time we want to change it to one timezone, say EST so tha...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Functionality already exists

Fix extranneous text created in Job Stream Descriptions.

Before 9.4 Jobdescriptions if blank did not show up in composer dump files. Now all the blank descriptions when the JobStream is editted change to "Automatically added by composer" This has the following negative consequences: 1. Dump files are mu...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Auto Upgrade JVM with Instana

Please update Java(Azul or Eclips) when updating instana via the agent update. As vulnerabilities appear instana should update the Java it uses and allow for the update to be seamless
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

In the Netcool JDBC Probe it should be possible to configure a limit for the select statement

The Netcool Omnibus JDBC Probe uses a select statement to read event data from a table. The select returns everything that falls under the "where" condition - and all that data is ingested into the memory of the Probe for processing. When the numb...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Event Rule file detection at start up

File monitoring in Event Rules currently does not detect pre-existing files at startup. I would like to option to have file be detected at monman startup.The PMR field does not accept the new Sales Force case number it is (TS001148396)
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration