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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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Where the Total Calculation should always be the sum of the subtotals?  It is much more intuitive for subtotals to be the sum of the totals rather than have totals computed differently than subtotals/

Where the Total Calculation should always be the sum of the subtotals? It is much more intuitive for subtotals to be the sum of the totals rather than have totals computed differently than subtotals/
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Needs more information

Global fiscal year, so date range for quarter follows the fiscal year setting. Then forecasting can also show for fiscal year, not calendar year / month.

Support for CFP data in BI.But required in either TC or CLDY.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Needs more information

Sort Vendor Credentials Account Names

There appears to be no sort order for Vendor Account Names within an Account. As an example we have an Azure Enterprise account with 100 subscriptions. The order of the subscriptions listed under the account appears to be random and although you c...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Needs more information

Need to be able to observe all events applied to Infrastructure map

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Infrastructure map for wall screen monitor. And they ask for ability to map all events on the zones/pilars of Infrastructure map. At the moment it looks like if something happens with pod, or application cust...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Needs more information

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Create view level permission for SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess

Hi, Our team would find it very useful if we could have a view only alternative to the following role in order to assign a more granular version to our customers: SavingsPlanFeatureFullAccess
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / User Management & Login 0 Needs more information

Adding Support for importing device configurations from an EMS system that manage non IP-Based Devices

EMS systems can manage group of devices that could not be accessable from ITNCM. These devices are optical or wireless devices (non-IP based) so ITNCM will not be able to access these devices. If IBM can provide a connector to gather device config...
6 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Needs more information

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

Include license costs in the rightsizing opportunity calculation

It has come to our attention that the savings opportunity shown in the cloudability rightsizing are not inclusive of licensing costs, as a result saving potential is being understated for resources that would also see a license save as a result of...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Needs more information

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Needs more information