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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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Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
29 days ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Enhanced change log and version control system

Summary: Introduce a change log and version control system to track modifications made to business mappings, tags/labels, account group mappings, and views within the platform, allowing users to view, compare, and revert changes as needed. Use cas...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
23 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Add more resources for Sustainability Reporting

Currently, Cloudability supports a limited set of resources in sustainability reporting, including only Azure Compute (non-GPU), Managed Disks, and Managed Databases. This restricts customers from gaining comprehensive insights into their sustaina...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Planned for future release

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Flexible Subflow Instances: We need additional instances for child subflows under the REST API-generated implementation subflow.

It would be much better if we had additional instances for child subflows under the REST API-generated subflow. This would allow us to associate all operations (request and response subflows) in one place, especially when dealing with asynchronous...
12 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Submitted