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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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Optimisations should report if changes are required before they can be executed

The latest example of this is the asV6 SKUs which have a dependency for the VM to be running the NVMe disk controller, yet the recommendation is being made for VMs wwith SCSI disk controllers. These optimisations then fail when customers try to ap...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Submitted

Workload Automation: Add support for Amazon RDS for Db2

Please consider adding support for Amazon RDS for Db2. Some IBM Customers plan moving to AWS. If they are using Db2 in their on-premises system, they would like to continue using Db2 even after migrating to AWS. This also applies to IWS DB if they...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
13 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...

Enable SSO account provisioning on NMS

We want new users who authenticate via SSO successfully to be able to access SevOne NMS without explicitly needing an account previously created and mapped to that same user. Currently your system only allows users with manually created accounts t...
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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 ...
19 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Overwrite Capability for Custom Calendar

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. Need overwrite capability for custom calendar. Not able to update our custom calendar after it's loaded once; you can only append dates. It's rare, but o...
19 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

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...
19 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Support for Redis Sensor on native IBM i Agent

Redis is data service that is one of the most popular NoSQL DBs.
5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted