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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

Targeting Oracle Connections - since Turbonomics requires Oracle Service Name and could be multiple Service names per VM server

creating 1 group for each Oracle VM and having 1 target connection for each Oracle DB service Name - get very cumbersome and quite manual and hard to maintain
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Provide the Password and/or the Client Credentials Grant Types for the ServiceNow Connectors

The current OAuth 2.0 implementation for the ServiceNow Connectors in Datalink use the authorization grant type which requires an interactive login when the refresh token expires. This means that a user has to physically login when the refresh tok...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Asset Class in Summary Tab

Currently asset class column is only part of Asset tab, so dropdown values will be shown only in Asset tab. You can use Project and Description to help identify the assets but not all assets have a Project ID or a unique description. Could this be...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

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

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

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

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