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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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Call topology diagrams between applications

Dear colleagues, Customer asks for applications dependency diagrams that would have additional options to show connections to other defined applications perspectives (excluding "All Services"). Currently there is only option to show the connection...
25 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Need integration with BMC Remedy

Dear colleagues, customer is asking for integration with service desk BMC Remedy, it REST API, but Generic Webhook format doesn't fit the Remedy API. Here is the example for creating incident: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm2002/example-of-using-th...
25 days ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Ability to select multiple Business Dimensions and use 'Views' to filter by Cloud Provider.

We are unable to utilize the cost sharing model as it does not allow for selecting multiple dimensions (i.e. Not Set or untagged bucket). We are also unable to utilize views by AWS, OCI, GCP or Azure to ensure only one of the providers can be redi...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Enforce Message bus probe REST API Listener to send HSTS response header

Currently the web server service for REST API listener of the message bus probe does not enforce sending HSTS header to clients as required in RFC xxx. This has been detected as an security issue at client Datev during a pentest and prevents us fr...
26 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Situation Update Forwarder (SUF) requires the installation of old libraries

Customer would like IBM to update the SUF component to use libraries that are currently available as part of the operating system such as SLES15 (or RHEL8). For example, neither libstdc++.so.5 nor libstdc++33 is available in the Legacy Module for ...
26 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 1

Make regionMap available through target addition page

Today when adding an AWS target, is the customer's SCP policies do not allow access to all regions (which is the case for 75%+ customers), they need to edit the regionMap to specify which regions they support. This has to be done through swagger a...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

When creating a network merge policy there should be a second field to display the data center name

When creating a network merge policy there should be a second field to display the data center name in the case that the same network name exists in two different data centers. Under the current design, if the same network exists in two different ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

AIOps Topology template to filter on elements' alert status

When creating dynamic templates, we sometimes run into issue that the resulting resource groups are quite huge (1000+ elements). From an operator's perspective, the focus is usually on resources having issues (alerts). We'd therefore like to have ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy

We would like multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy. In our state authorizing environment, we have certain use cases where there are 2 approving agencies. Currently, you can set 2 users as the cost object owner...
26 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1