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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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Align the Azure region names in Cloudability with the actual Azure region names

As can be seen in the attachment, Azure provide two region name standards via the API; PricesExtract.Items.armRegionName which is currently used as the second part of the region name in cloudability, and PricesExtract.Items.location which currentl...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Submitted

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Enable users to filter Cloudy reports by multiple resource IDs simultaneously using an ‘in’ operator, eliminating the need to add each resource ID as a separate filter.

Why it is useful: Currently, users who want to filter Cloudy reports by several resource IDs must add a separate filter for each ID. This process is time-consuming and cumbersome, especially when dealing with large numbers of resource IDs (e.g., 1...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

Quick Currency Switch Button

Overview Currently, users must navigate through multiple steps in the user preferences menu to change their preferred currency. This process is time-consuming and interrupts workflow, especially for users who frequently need to view data in differ...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

GCP Workflow Plugin: Enable Custom Project ID for Execution

We request the implementation of a new feature in the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) that allows users to explicitly specify a Google Cloud Project ID for workflow execution. Currently, it appears that ...
6 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

GCP Workflow Plugin: Allow Specifying Different Billing/Quota Project

Currently, the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) appears to limit workflow execution to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project associated with the Service Account specified in the IWS connection definitio...
6 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
9 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Provision of a Dedicated Proxy Server for Instana SaaS

Currently, Instana SaaS requires several configurations after deploying the Agent in order to communicate with the backend server. In general, a large number of ports need to be opened, and when setting up a proxy, various elements such as the TLS...
15 days ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Submitted

Make project names editable

Users created a project name but then want to change the name or remove it and that functionality is not available.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Color Coding ability

We need ability to apply color coding to visual table report based on values in its rows for example, if custom field value is true we want to see row in green and when false - in red
10 days ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Submitted