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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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Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Function to allow the controlled display of an allocated value from a lower object

Being able to set the Columns of a table to be the column of a lower object (i.e. a drill table) is extremely useful in showing the makeup of costs - eg the Cost Pools contributing to an application, you see the values at Cost Source categorised b...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

flow de-duplication within DI

Flow duplication is a big issue when reporting and the same flow records are sent from different flow exporters (routers that the traffic transits). It's not easy to define groups or select specific devices for reporting, particularly when there a...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Under review

Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Out-of-the-box vs Custom Reports

As a TBMA, I'd like to be able to pull a report that shows me which of our existing reports are out-of-the-box vs custom. We are building out a report dictionary and this is a field we'd like to have available. This will also help us work around u...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Promotion to Incident only group of alerts

Incidents are created to categorize the alert and allow notification to the associated ITSM to open a trouble ticket. The Alert Group correlates a series of alerts based on correlation policies. In my view, only alert groups should be promoted to ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow flexibility in creating new work item types and linking them to other work item types

I would like be able to create new work item types by myself. Then I would like to be able to link them e.g. as custom fields to other work item types.Example: I am using Requirement management in TP but requirements in TP do not have any linking ...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

The "More Information" Link should be available to show justification of the temporal/seasonal/scope-based when RBAC profiles are enabled

Users should be able to view justifications regardless of whether they have a RBAC profile or not. We monitor multiple applications and each application team has their own profile. seeing an alert is seasonal, for example, without the ability to v...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

We really need a way to associate various application assets into a single bundle that can be delivered to other Pliant instances

I know I sound like a broken record on Projects, but we just run into a major issue at Verizon. We built a project that involved a dozen WFs and a dozen API access points. The access points had a fair amount of configuration each, such as custom h...
about 2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Future consideration

When planning is in maintenance please have a dialog box stating "Maintenance in progress"

Team that have users from all over the globe that have working hours during the maintenance windows. Because it is their normal working hours and the system is down with no explanation it causes people to think something is wrong with the system a...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration