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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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Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
3 months ago in Instana / .NET / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses For example, suppose there are 3,000 EC2 virtual machines in one AWS account. In that case, under the current Turbonomic structure, 3,000 machines (3,000 licenses) are required on an MVS ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Having a scroll bar, pinned feature, reorder tabs in TBM studio

Our admin team would like the ability to have a scroll feature, pinned feature, and the ability to reorder table tabs added to the bottom of TBM studio.  When performing configuration or troubleshooting, or data loading, the amount of tabs ne...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Under review

Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
4 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Improve Documentation UI for blocks in Workflow editor

At present the only way to view what a block does (for most integrations) is to hover over a tooltip and read the contents. The problem is that these tooltips are sometimes empty, vague, cut off out of the UI or just don't render for some reason. ...
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Future consideration

Partner access that removes access to see fully loaded costs and work out the enterprise discount

Within my client they work extensively with external entities [TCS, CTS, WIPRO etc] to manage their infrastructure. They do not want to allow these partners to see the full costs in cloudability that are shown in the dashboarding and insights pane...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Implement Custom Roles & RBAC Control via Entity/Tag

This would benefit all users of Turbonomic by allowing administrators to define custom roles, as well as the permissions applied to these roles either globally or by entity/tag and their respective child objects. This would enable application owne...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 11 Planned for future release

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

NOC needs to add PDU Loss detected by Versa probes between SDWAN Tunnel Endpoints

The "Loss" Value that SevOne uses to trigger the PPM Polices is based on the FWD & REV Loss and NOT the PDU Loss. The FWD & REV Loss are not class specific and measure loss of data received in either direction. The key thing here is if, as...
4 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 5 Needs more information