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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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Enable the "Apply Filters Dependency" for dashboard filters.

Currently, the dashboard filters do not apply filter dependencies, which forces user to type their options in the filters and sometime when the list expands beyond 150, it doesn't even appear.  Enabling this will elevate the user expereince....
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

Customisable legend in AIOps Topology Viewer

Looking at the screenshot attached, we are using some custom background and border colors. Within the topology view, there is a legend, which explains to the users, what the icons and colors in a topology visualisation mean. Having a customisable ...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
4 months ago in Instana / Automation 3 Planned for future release

Punctuation in TBM Studio

In TBM studio in regular tables all sums below a table are shown without comma or dots between three digits. That means when you have 10000000 is hard to read. I would like to have 10.000.000 or 10,000,000 or even spaces would be okay. 
7 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Expand Frontdoor API to include CREATE, UPDATE, and DELETE (CRUD) of custom roles

As a Managed Service Provider who manages the Apptio implementation on behalf of the customer organization. The customer organization has many agencies underneath. Each agency may or may not have same permissions to view and use different componen...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enabling support for OpenShift Container is a necessary addition

Apptio currently does not support OpenShift Container, unless it’s ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS), which is a service provided by AWS. Enabling support for OpenShift Container is a necessary addition, and we kindly request that you review...
20 days ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio Development environment. However, we have faced so...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

ITP / Labor KPI metric to show both the current MEC's actual and YE forecast

In ITP, labor/KPI currently shows only the year ending headcount. We want to be able to see both the current month-end that has actual available and also year-end forecast/target. This basic workforce status view will be meaningful to upper manage...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mission Organization could hav...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Track rightsizing cost savings for optimization

As discussed on Slack with Lisa Harnett and the team, NVIDIA's resource optimization recommendations could track the rightsizing resource better by tracking the new resource ID. Currently "if you do a blue/green deployment (and the new resource ID...
20 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted