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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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Increase Apptio BI limitation of 10 metrics and 15 dimension

Current Apptio BI metrics and dimensions have limitation and caps the report capability and functions.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Call topology diagrams between applications

Dear colleagues, Customer asks for applications dependency diagrams that would have additional options to show connections to other defined applications perspectives (excluding "All Services"). Currently there is only option to show the connection...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Need integration with BMC Remedy

Dear colleagues, customer is asking for integration with service desk BMC Remedy, it REST API, but Generic Webhook format doesn't fit the Remedy API. Here is the example for creating incident: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm2002/example-of-using-th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Ability to select multiple Business Dimensions and use 'Views' to filter by Cloud Provider.

We are unable to utilize the cost sharing model as it does not allow for selecting multiple dimensions (i.e. Not Set or untagged bucket). We are also unable to utilize views by AWS, OCI, GCP or Azure to ensure only one of the providers can be redi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Enforce Message bus probe REST API Listener to send HSTS response header

Currently the web server service for REST API listener of the message bus probe does not enforce sending HSTS header to clients as required in RFC xxx. This has been detected as an security issue at client Datev during a pentest and prevents us fr...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Situation Update Forwarder (SUF) requires the installation of old libraries

Customer would like IBM to update the SUF component to use libraries that are currently available as part of the operating system such as SLES15 (or RHEL8). For example, neither libstdc++.so.5 nor libstdc++33 is available in the Legacy Module for ...
about 1 month ago in ITM/IBM APM 1

Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Enhancement of Quick Filters to display more than 150 recent entities

Currently Quick Filters has a limitation of the entities which shows 150 recently viewed items. This makes some of them invisible unless the name will be used un the search.
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Allow a way for app owners to see pending changes without Turbonomic access

Overwhelmingly, app owners want to know what's changing on their VMs (rightfully). Allowing them to see some sort of public dashboard of pending actions would help us greatly instead of either having to give all of them access or checking for the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration