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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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Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data.  In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from bein...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Direct access to Team entity

My question is more to see if there is a way to have a non admin user that is not associated with a team to be able to modify that team? Is there something that can be done with permissioning and granting access to certain entities that would allo...
almost 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Improvement of status of file-observer

When the file-observer has the state "finished", there are still some jobs in the background, i.e. indexing in Elasticsearch. The state in the overview of topology-management is irritating, as the user might still see some undefined resources in ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

More detailed error messages in Datalink Financials

A similar enhancement idea already exists for Datalink Classic, but the error messages for Datalink Financial are also inscrutable. Example: Failed connector details: "Error while calling Async Post API. Code: 500 , Message: Error message rece...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Under review

Parking support for serverless service, like fargate

Currently, AWS serverless service, Fargate cannot be optimized. However, customer think it's useful just to be able to control that suspend for fargate service. *Currently, it is troublesome to control with scripts. Extend Parking functionality to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Alert setup on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity

Ability to setup alert on Kubernetes Horizontal pod autoscaling nearing max pods capacity as this requirement will help monitoring team to take action before Horizontal pod autoscaling reach its max capacity
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3

Identify environment Cloudability email generated from

Case #TS017536579 - Cloudability currently can't indicate on generated email reports, what environment it is coming from. If customer has sandbox and production, can't tell what environment report was generated from.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

All configuration items involving Alerts should allow the usage of all fields from the Alert schema including custom fields

AIOps enables the extension of the alert schema with custom fields and these should be able to be used in the configuration of the system. This would include: In the "Add Menu Item" dialogue All fields should show in the list of columns selectable...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

We need to be able to have more than one Servicenow targets

This is to support development and testing. We have our Turbonomic intergrate with our production SNOW. But we need to be able to also integrate with our development SNOW to support more development and testing. Most customer will have a productio...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Planned for future release