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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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Select multiple credentials for Ansible playbooks during runtime via runbook

Domain: Ansible Integration Hello Team, Currently, there are playbooks that require two types of credentials for execution: SSH and Vault. However, AIOps presently allows only one credential to be selected, which causes the playbook to fail during...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Modify Try-Catch node to catch all errors.

At this time, Try-Catch-Throw blocks do not capture all errors, and instead cause the workflow to stop. This may be due to JS's handling of errors, but the client would like to be able catch errors from database query blocks and handle them, even ...
21 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Is a defect

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Allow more flexibility on alert messages

We would like to customize the subject of email alerts sent, so that the users can at a glance determine what is going wrong. This could be done by adding an option for a custom title in the Alert parameters.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Language Setting Option to allows users to select their preferred language

The Language Setting Option is a crucial feature that allows users to select their preferred language, such as Japanese, Spanish, and others, instead of being limited to English. Current Situation:  Currently, our users primarily utilize th...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Store Imported File Names in Event Log

When importing data into the expenses view of Planning, it would be helpful to store the name of the imported file in the event log. This will allow admins to know what file was loaded at a given time in the event there was an error in the data. T...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration