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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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Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Details around a versioned table in the pipeline step

As a user I would like to be able to identify where a version in a table has happened and when. We would like to include it in the pipeline step shown in the image below, therefore, it is obvious there is a version and the document does not have t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Under review

Generate documentation from system note fields

In TBM Studio we can create in-product documentation writing notes on:- Tables in the Table description- Columns in the Description of the Import step as well as in the Formulas step- Allocations in the Notes section- Metrics in the Description fi...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Add end user facing documentation in v3 API IBM developer pages

With SOAP being deprecated already from the ongoing supported API access and the desire to retire API v2, we need to ensure end users/customers are able to efficiently use the v3 API and complete documentation is the key to this succeeding. Withou...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

ADDITIONAL ABILITIES AROUND EMAILING INFORMATION OF ALERTS ON POLICIES

Today we are launching the SD-WAN PPM service. We have more and more customers who are keen to receiving breached alert information via email rather than tickets. We would like to have the option to have a TO and CC capability along with being abl...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Functionality already exists

User with the permission of edit team to be able to assign User to the Team even if when they are not part of it

We want User with the permission of edit team to be able to assign User to the Team even if when they are not part of it.   The reason is while working in SAFe you have e.g. the role of the release train engineer above the Teams and this rol...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Language Expansion

At this time, only English and Japanese are offered as language settings in Apptio. It would be extremely valuable for the Spanish language to be added as well.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted