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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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Read Only Users

A Read-Only user, similar to the Observer user type in TargetProcess.The key difference here, is the Read Only user only has access to data, where they are given access to.Preferably, this becomes a User Type, making a touchless setup possible for...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Maintain Identity of Stateful Workloads Running on Spot Instances

As a Turbonomic User, Cloud Engineer and FinOps Practitioner I want to maintain the identity of stateful workloads currently managed by Spot.io so that when a "recycle" occurs in Spot.io and the disk is detached and reattached to a new compute ins...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Add more collection operators to filter expressions

Existing collection operators are ".Where", ".Count", and ".Contains". It would be useful to have other operators like ".sum", ".max", ".min", etc. The Metrics and Validation rules DSL support these operators; it would make sense for the filter ex...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

Export of custom dashboards in global export

Hello,Can you add the export of custom dashboards and datasources in the global export in the DWC.
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow the Group Step to ignore blanks instead of turning them into {Various}

We receive a data file that for a single key the data is across multiple rows, see example picture attached. (A similar common scenario is appended data with new columns that duplicates a key, however in this case we know the columns and can use a...
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Cloudability / BI landing page for new users.

New users to Cloudability typically onboard by requesting SSO access but are without context when logging in to Apptio Cloudability for the first time. I would like to direct first time users to a landing page which would serve as a getting starte...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
11 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

Prevent merge policies to be automatically deleted when one scoped member of the policy (host, network, storage, etc) is deleted or removed.

When creating merge policies, if for example, a cluster merge policy contains hostCluster1, hostCluster2 and hostCluster3, and one of those hostCluster is removed from vCenter or from Turbo, the merge police gets automatically deleted, so the cust...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Let integration with elasticsearch include filters of entire application perspective

Dear colleagues, at the moment button appears only on host, port, container dashboard: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=logging-elk#accessing-elk-from-the-instana-ui and leads to the correspondent item only. Please c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration