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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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Views - Allow by Seller

Current View options only allows by Vendor, which restricts us from filtering out AWS Marketplace. If we could create a View by Seller, this would remove Marketplace purchases
12 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Views - Can't see who created/using

Admins can't see who created a given View and who is using. We are left with stale Views do to not being able to validate if still in use or if a View is owned by someone that is no longer with company or changed roles. Also a way to easily downlo...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
12 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

In the application traces(Analytics->calls in the UI) the query execution time from a DB2 is not getting represented correctly, for example when a query is waiting for a lock this time is not getting reported under query time instead it is getting reported under JVM time.

it was observed that the entire time(execution+lock) was distributed between the query execution and result fetch, so we need an implementation where we can see the query time and a child span for resultset showing the time taken in locking if any...
7 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Is the data from "S3 Storage Lens" available in CLDY?

S3 Lens data is useful to optimise costs in S3.
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ericsson ENM eMS ITNM Collector coverage for Tx Microwave devices

We need IBM to enhance the the existing ericsson ENM ems ITNM colelctor program to provide coverage for Tx Microwave device types.
7 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Missing 'Select All' option in Apptio BI Report level filters

The report level filters in Apptio BI lack the option to select all values filtered using the search functionality. Having a "Select all" would avoid the cumbersome task of selecting each item individually.
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Extend filter options for m-m relationships

we currently have the issue that specific filters are not as well supported as they should be. we would love to have m-m filtering for custom fields that we set up for an entity. Currently we created the additional entity "areas" that we can conne...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Submitted