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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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Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

FX Rate Automation

Integrate FX Rate Automation into Multi Currency - giving Administrators the opportunity to utilize an automated end of month or average rate to convert into their preferred currency.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Inbuilt Incident Priority Control

Summary of the Current Solution One of the use cases we implemented is to classify incoming events via probe rules into service types (e.g., Outage, Degradation, Interface Down) using a lookup table. Incidents are created via front-end policies wi...
7 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ObjectServer scalability to support higher volume of alarms

We have been seeing the objectservers limitation to handle about ~200K standing alarms at a given time. And whenever there are more alarms or sudden spikes it's not able to handle the load and goes instable state.It's imperative to increase this c...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Expose billing measure variable

The client wants to add a column that shows the billing method for that resource, whether it is per GB, GB/Month, etc. So that they can get more details in their reports.
19 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Log Anomaly Detection Alerts need improvement

The alerts generated by Log Anomaly Detection don't give an indication as to what the issue is. The Alert Summary only contains the template name. The Summary should be more user friendly..something like "log message xxxxxxx occurred x times" it t...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Request for improvement of EIF Probe Event Format

Environment: Netcool OMNIBUS 8.1, EIF Prove 1.13.0 After updating EIF Prove from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0, some of the triggers went wrong. We figured out that it was caused by APAR( IV03958 , IV75418 ) included in EIF Prove 1.14.0. Since customers has al...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add the ability to show more decimal places

Hello, Cigna would like to raise an enhancement request to add the ability to increase decimal places beyond 2 within ApptioBI and/or Cloudability. Such as $0.0005.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review