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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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Make regionMap available through target addition page

Today when adding an AWS target, is the customer's SCP policies do not allow access to all regions (which is the case for 75%+ customers), they need to edit the regionMap to specify which regions they support. This has to be done through swagger a...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

Business or work day of month option for scheduling

(This is in relation to earlier idea https://community.apptio.com/idea/work-day-schedule, which was marked incorrectly as delivered.) Please add a recurrence option when scheduling connectors to use business or work days for monthly schedules. Be...
6 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Device Groups in the Metadata widget: If the source group has child groups, have an option to list only the child groups. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the device groups within the selected Parent.

It would allow the widget to display device groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Define a group based on a tag

Customer wants to be able to create a scope/group based off a particular tag, and then assign a user to that group. To have RBAC based on tags.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 1

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

"Last Uploaded" date

As per the design behaviour, the "Upload" step shows upload times in GMT-7:00 (PST) timezone and not in the Customers local timezone (see attached screenshot). This is in our opinion misleading and confusing. Apptio is requested to change this so ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 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...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

TSA MP supported for AWS

The purpose of this RFE is to request support of Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms on AWS. One of the IBM project teams at large customer needs an official support of Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms on AWS multi AZ environmen...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration