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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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Drill Option to be enabled with Net Spend Feature when selecting compare in the time range

Customer wants to create a report which first will report with Net Spend on a Account Name or Cost Center Basis. Once we can identify a cost center with the biggest net spend. We should be able to drill into the table by service name to understand...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
6 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Service Costing/Landing Page - Report Button Visibility feature not working

We would like to set the visibility of report buttons in landing page(service costing) based on the role of business users. There is an option to set visibility by buttons but this option is only working for Admin Role, the option is not working i...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Purestorage Cloud Block Store (CBS) support required for TWS (IBM Workload Scheduler - Distributed)

Purestorage CBS provides a more flexible, cost-effective, and globally accessible solution compared to native data disks, making it an attractive option for businesses seeking scalable and efficient storage solutions.
8 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Localization of report emails into Japanese.

The general users in Japan typically do not understand English, leading to a situation where they do not review the reports provided. As a result, the customer has raised this feature request. From the perspective of increasing Cloudability suppor...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

IWS Installation with sedmgr -m all

Hello, We were getting troubles installing IWS 9.5 FP07 agent on a AIX OS LPAR using the sedmgr -m all settings on. The keytool and java binaries included in the IWS package install won't work if we didn't make them a sedmgr exception before they ...
22 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to add additional Columns to Rightsizing endpoints

Each client has unique custom tags and mappings. When creating new reports using data from Cloudability (Cldy) in TBM Studio, we often encounter mapping gaps and limitations due to restrictions on adding Resource IDs in Studio. For example, while ...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
9 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted