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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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Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

GlassBox integration to see the Instana backend tracing correlated to the end user sessions recorded by GlassBox.

The customer want to understand better the beckend behavious starting from the GlassBox recorded sessions.
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
12 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Future consideration

Add end user facing documentation in v3 API IBM developer pages

With SOAP being deprecated already from the ongoing supported API access and the desire to retire API v2, we need to ensure end users/customers are able to efficiently use the v3 API and complete documentation is the key to this succeeding. Withou...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Provide fixed relative positioning for vertices in the topology templates

It is essential to be able to provide the functionlaity in the AIOPs topology building templates to fix the positioning of the vertex and thier neighbouring vertex. The vertex when positioned via the drag-and-drop function during the template buil...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Add Project Setting to Enable/Disable Case-Sensitivity

As a TBMA, I would like the ability to disable case-sensitivity in CT. I often resort to forcing columns I use for lookups or data relationships to upper case to ensure they will work. However, I have never had a case where I wanted data to match ...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Rightsizing ROI Enhancements - Realized Savings, user experience, & reporting impacts

As a FinOps practitioner responsible for driving FinOps best practice adoption across our organization, and responsible to deliver potential & realized savings metrics to the executives, I require the ability to report on the savings offered &...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Requesting that an enhancement be created to allow SevOne NMS to interface for user token card authentication on IBM Tivoli WebSphere Application Server using Single-Sign-On

I work for the US Air Force and we need to be able to use our token cards to authenticate from IBM Tivoli JazzSM/DASH to SevOne NMS and SevOne Data Insights. Currently the NMS only supports Okta/Azure SSO/SAML providers. I am not seeing support fo...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

Add Project Settings option for Number Formatting to apply to all tables (not shown via reports)

As a TBMA, I would like to see numbers displayed in non-report tables displayed in TBM Studio formatted with a  thousands and/or decimal places, when defined in a new "Number Formatting" option in Project Settings. The formatting will not onl...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted