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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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Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
12 days ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Under review

Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
25 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Ability to Restrict API Key Creation by Role

Currently any Cloudability user can create API Keys. The only way to prevent end users from creating API Keys is to disable API Keys completely across the domain. However admins need API Keys to be able to do some admin related tasks for both Clou...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Future consideration

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
3 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Frontdoor - Allow multiple Domain Management SSO Configurations to be enabled at one time and have them assigned to specific environments

This would be useful since we could have both our lower IDP environment and prod IDP environment onboarded to test for any SSO configuration changes before applying to prod. It also allows our Jira integration to be enabled much easier. We are hav...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Submitted

Enable Opentelemetry for SAP and SOAP Nodes

This feature allows the collection of OpenTelemetry-compatible tracing data for SOAP and SAP nodes within IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). By enabling OpenTelemetry, developers and operations teams can gain deep observability into message flows i...
3 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Enhancements in OpenAPI Documentation

Hi Team, Could we enhance the documentation under infrastructure-monitoring/snapshots/ by listing all the available metrics that can be fetched through the API? Currently, the table does not detail the possible metrics users can query, which makes...
3 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

enable the feature to enlarge the column in Cost sharing

Issue: customer cannot enlarge this first column resulting into the statement name are truncated. Issue is happening at : Go to CloudabilityGo to Organize -> Cost sharingGo to Explorerwe are able to decrease and increase the length of first col...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Support of IBM ACE on Windows

Supporting IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on Windows for Monitoring Adding support for monitoring IBM ACE on Windows would greatly benefit development and QA teams who primarily use Windows environments during local testing and early-stage deplo...
7 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
25 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review