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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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IT Planning Undo Button

Our users have requested the ability to have an undo function available to them when making edits in the contract and labor tabs.  This would allow them to be able to revert any changes that were made incorrectly without having to remember th...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 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 2 months 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 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

SevOne Cisco ACI Solution should write ACI Faults to the Database for Baselining

Currently today the Cisco ACI solution is able to visualize the Fault Messages that are available from the APIC and the POD but is not written to the database. This means that users of the solution can see what is available in real time but can no...
7 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Trace through Azure API Management and Azure Service Bus

Clients use Integrations running in Azure are expecting full tracing end to end through Azure API Management - Appservice - Azure SQL - Azure Service Bus - Azure Functions. Today Instana can only trace through App Services and Functions so we can ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Ability to sort/filter an entity/group's Automation Workflow 'result of policy' table by the value column

Today, if you navigate to a VM > Policies > Automation Workflow, you'll see "Attribute", "Value", and "Active Policy". You have to read through them row by row. If we're able to add the functionality to sort and filter the table, we can quic...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Would like to give user(s) access to their own project in TBM Studio without also giving them access to the main Cost Transparency project.

Users in other areas of the business will be able to utilize Apptio without gaining access to confidential data or compromising the integrity of another user's project or the main CT project. It will help drive exposure and expansion of the applic...
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Ability to pull usage metrics from Cloudability into TBM Studio

Currently we can only pull cost into studio. Would would like to be able to pull other metrics such as vCPU Hours.
26 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Not under consideration