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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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Unable to upload mdb file type using upload link

When I try to upload a mdb file in the Test Case run, it gives an error of 'Invalid file extension,' but copy-pasting is working.
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

ITP - Contracts tab - Extension adjustment is only calculated once even for multi-year contracts

Extension adjustment for contracts is only calculated once. So if the original price is 100 euros and extension is +3% it will be 103 euros for all the following years instead of compounding annually.There needs to be an ability to compound the in...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Reporting that shows the financial impact of Changes at Towers, Services Business Units

As an Apptio Developer I would like to be able to see the impact of my changes in a report BEFORE I check in, against the cost metric at Resource Towers, Business Services and Business Unit allocation. Then I know that the changes I am making are ...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

Support Case Ref:00355348 This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mi...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Instana Pod Monitoring on Windows Nodes

The current requirement is to enable Instana pod monitoring on a Windows worker node in the absence of a Linux worker node within the cluster. This necessitates the implementation of Windows pod monitoring capability within the existing framework.
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration