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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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Allow for wildcards on time arguments in conman commands (or more commands)

Our company uses conman commands regularly in our automation to perform many tasks that we would otherwise do manually. As often as possible, we use variables or wild cards so that hard-coding isn't needed. In some cases, that is now allowed. One ...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

New LWA Job Executor to run gcloud run jobs using a bearer token from GCP

To enable the use of gcloud run in the bank and run workloads on the fly without the need for a full LWA in the cloud environment
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support Webex Teams for AIOPS ChatOps

ChatOps would introduce a new way to collaborate that is one of the most important modernizations expected for this customer Operation
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for ActiveMQ Artemis version up to 2.36.x

Hi team, Our customer MinFin from Belgium reported that they aren't able to monitor their ActiveMQ Artemis because their version is not supported, we support until 2.6.x Can you please add support up till latest version at the time of writing this...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

IT Planning Selective Edits to External Data

As a TBMA and user of IT Planning, we would like the ability to selectively edit certain columns within an External data set.  An example would be that we import External data into IT Planning and make all columns read-only with the exception...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Allow for Key Milestones to Appear on Roadmap Views

It would be helpful to have the option to display key milestones on epic roadmaps so we can see what the milestones for that specific epic are. Currently, we only have the ability to show milestones with the standard milestone in the system, but t...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Reports / User Experience / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review