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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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Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 15 Planned for future release

Ability to sort reference data as related to dropdown lists

I would like the ability to sort reference data (cost center, department, accounts, and projects) by code or names. Most of our codes are alpha and numeric (ex: C4310, C3320, I26B, I78A) but the dropdown lists usually sort by name resulting in a w...
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Reporting on App Service Environments in Azure.

CBA have a use case where many of their workloads are moving to ASE. We dont get much granularity from ASE in the cost reporting - however via the SPN we deploy we could possibly use that to gain better insights for ASE.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Managing Plans - Grouping and Access

To help with useability of Planning especially if you have multiple plans - 1) Have a grouping of plans - would allow the drop down to have the group first and then open to see the plans within the group 2) Allow users to be given permission and o...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
2 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
23 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

MS Graph probe

Vodafone Spain is using the Email probe with POP3 protocol to read a mailbox. They want to migrate that mailbox to Office 365 and they need to use another protocol to read the mailbox. They cannot use the EWS probe because it has a SOCKS proxy, wh...
20 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review