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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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Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

Device Type Classification in SevOne REST API

My team owns IBM CP4AIOPS ASM observer that responsible for resource topology discovery. We do have an integration with SevOne, called SevOne Observer. At the moment. I have a request from StarHub and EastLink on the capability for AIOPs to classi...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Having a scroll bar, pinned feature, reorder tabs in TBM studio

Our admin team would like the ability to have a scroll feature, pinned feature, and the ability to reorder table tabs added to the bottom of TBM studio.  When performing configuration or troubleshooting, or data loading, the amount of tabs ne...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Under review

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration needs to support the objects included in the JSON format

The current Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration should be able to parse the current Elastic Common Schema as defined here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-log.html
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 2 Under review

Allow encryption key to be supported in DI

During a DI integration with identity provider (IDP). Notice if the encryption key is enabled at IDP, DI will not be able to authenticate the user. If disable encryption, user can be authenticated. Passing Token without encryption is a security lo...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Search Box

I would love to have a "search box" where a user can enter text and the report will return the list of relevant records, such as relevant applications. this will work just like the "ehancement idea" search box on this idea page. there are no repor...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Needs more information

Asset Class in Summary Tab

Currently asset class column is only part of Asset tab, so dropdown values will be shown only in Asset tab. You can use Project and Description to help identify the assets but not all assets have a Project ID or a unique description. Could this be...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration