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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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Workload Automation - Databricks Plugin Improvements

IWA Databricks plugin should be improved in the visualization and interaction capabilities with the Databricks workflow: - Plugin should have the ability to view tasks (which are part of Databrick jobs) - Plugin should have the ability to rerun/co...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Increase the granularity of DynamoDB metrics to support hourly basis analysis

The idea is to have the metrics for a few products persistent on an hourly basis so the users can do a deeper analysis of their usage. Today, the customer is using a tool from AWS Marketplace called CUDOS to do that. https://aws.amazon.com/pt/blog...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add to DWC "TEXT EDIT" option to IWS Workload Designer , similar to the layout of composer

As discussed with Marco and DWC level 3 development team , last week. We would like to see an enhancement to DWC Workload Designer where we can have the option of " Text Editor" , so the IWS object we have chosen is displayed similar to the compos...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Submitted

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

The federal reserve is depreciating AES-128. They can use it now, but in the near future it will need an exception. can only use approved cryptographic measures. Support to customer: Hello Richard, I don't believe there are plans in place to updat...
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

More Enhanced reporting for Anomaly Detection

Customer is able to see multiple anomalies in his tool. It's difficult for the customer to identify from which cost center the anomaly is coming from. Currently in the tool if we create a report for a specific anomaly, we have to add dimensions ma...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Drill Option to be enabled with Net Spend Feature when selecting compare in the time range

Customer wants to create a report which first will report with Net Spend on a Account Name or Cost Center Basis. Once we can identify a cost center with the biggest net spend. We should be able to drill into the table by service name to understand...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Include the Connection count metric for Azure SQL recommendations

Rightsizing - We need Cloudability to have the number of connections metric for Azure SQL Database recommendations - "Succesful connections" in the details of the recommendations
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration