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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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To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
about 1 month ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

The alerts priority in an AIOPs incident (hence the root cause) should change as there are more alerts received after the incidents has been created.

In practice, events may still come after the Incident has been created, and the priority has been assigned. The later alerts might be the root cause. So the Incidents prioritisation and root cause analysis should be triggered as there are more ale...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Make the select after REST inserts into the ObjectServer optional

When an insert into the ObjectServer is made using the REST interface, a select is performed afterwards to ensure the insert was successful. However, when the inserted Event is cancelled in a trigger before insert, there's an error message in the ...
2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Broadcom APM inetgration with Apptio Cloudability for Memory Utilization

We are currently using Apptio Cloudability for cloud cost optimization and visibility, and we rely on memory utilization data to generate accurate rightsizing recommendations. As part of this setup, Apptio typically requires CloudWatch Agents or D...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Under review

Export analytics of calls and subcalls as image and as PDF-report

Provides complete information for ticketing systems without granting access to Instana. Enables communication with 3rd party vendors. Especially important to analyze calls with a large number of subcalls.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Stop calculating previous years in development

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. We've noticed data from 4 years ago calculating in "Development" that we don't need to calculate, which are extending calculation times. We only publish ...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Date functions should utilize custom calendar

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. Date functions are pulling based on calendar and not the custom calendar we are utilizing. For example, in our custom calendar, September (our P8) starts...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Visualize realized savings for actions taken in a specific timeframe

The realized savings widget shows savings for all actions taken historically, even when a specific timeframe is scoped. In order to properly report on the realized savings from a specific date, we only want to see the savings that start to accrue ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review

Turbonomic - Develop Official Support for AWS Outposts

Customers are increasingly using AWS Outposts within their IT infrastructure. Despite being unsupported, customers who are able to target these instances via VPC subnetting are required to add to their MVS count for licensing. We have a current IB...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 4 Under review