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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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Finalizing a plan with unapproved Cost Objects

It appears that we are currently able to finalize a plan with unapproved Cost Objects (i.e. changes have been submitted by the end user but not yet approved by the CO Owner).  There may be instances where this is acceptable, but I would think...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Consistent Resizing based on Example / Template Server Group-

We'd like to request an enhancement to the "Consistent Resizing" feature that would allow an "example" or "template" server group to drive the sizing actions of several other linked groups. We would like to be able to divide our servers into diffe...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Not under consideration

Capability to customize NPI Network Performance Overview Dashboard

Capability to customize Network Performance Overview Dashboard on NPI to remove some of the statistic that are not use.
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add Cell wise comment on the IT-Plannning Expenses page

Users have demanded an ability to add cell wise comments similar to Microsoft Excel. For e.g. If a expense has T&M billing then each cell will have a different forecast value and the user needs the ability to save comment on each cell. 
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

mapping js errors for backend

Actually, the source mapping is done only on front end errors It could be intertesting to have this mapping available also on the stack traces for backend side, since we have transpilation process between javascript and typescript
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Node / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Support IPv6

Provide IPv6 into ICAM: for hosting ICAM for managing workloads through ICAM, typically VMs which are using IPv6 or a mixture of IPv6 and IPv4
about 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration