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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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Allow flexibility in creating new work item types and linking them to other work item types

I would like be able to create new work item types by myself. Then I would like to be able to link them e.g. as custom fields to other work item types.Example: I am using Requirement management in TP but requirements in TP do not have any linking ...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

The "More Information" Link should be available to show justification of the temporal/seasonal/scope-based when RBAC profiles are enabled

Users should be able to view justifications regardless of whether they have a RBAC profile or not. We monitor multiple applications and each application team has their own profile. seeing an alert is seasonal, for example, without the ability to v...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

We really need a way to associate various application assets into a single bundle that can be delivered to other Pliant instances

I know I sound like a broken record on Projects, but we just run into a major issue at Verizon. We built a project that involved a dozen WFs and a dozen API access points. The access points had a fair amount of configuration each, such as custom h...
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Future consideration

When planning is in maintenance please have a dialog box stating "Maintenance in progress"

Team that have users from all over the globe that have working hours during the maintenance windows. Because it is their normal working hours and the system is down with no explanation it causes people to think something is wrong with the system a...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

The JSON Audit files should be valid JSON

The audit files that IWS stores in JSON format may not always be valid JSON documents. Specifically, the value for "actionDependentContents" may make the document unparsable. For example, in this record, the quotes in the value of "actionDependent...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

IT Planning Selective Edits to External Data

As a TBMA and user of IT Planning, we would like the ability to selectively edit certain columns within an External data set.  An example would be that we import External data into IT Planning and make all columns read-only with the exception...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release