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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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Support of IBM ACE on Windows

Supporting IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) on Windows for Monitoring Adding support for monitoring IBM ACE on Windows would greatly benefit development and QA teams who primarily use Windows environments during local testing and early-stage deplo...
14 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Utilization data for Azure and GCP via Reports in Appti BI.

Customer wants Utilization data for Azure and GCP via Reports in Apptio BI. As of now we were supporting a few products of AWS but not AZURE and GCP.
14 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to Restrict API Key Creation by Role

Currently any Cloudability user can create API Keys. The only way to prevent end users from creating API Keys is to disable API Keys completely across the domain. However admins need API Keys to be able to do some admin related tasks for both Clou...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Future consideration

Add email subscription option for Cloudability Optimize Rightsizing Recommendations

Problem:Right now a user can only retrieve rightsizing recommendations relevant to them by going into the Optimize Rightsizing UI, applying relevant filters to narrow it down to infrastructure thei own and seeing if there are any results. This is ...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
10 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Self-Service capability to Postpone Scheduled Parking Shutdown

Introduce a self-service feature similar to Azure’s "Auto-shutdown" mechanism. Before a scheduled VM parking event, send an email notification to the designated VM owner. This email should offer the option to postpone the shutdown by 1 hour, 2 hou...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

We have requirement to monitor windows OS 2025

It helps customer business by making OS up to market standards in terms of new features and also increase company business Our Customer is Sandvik We need your help by providing with latest fixpack or ServicePack for ITM which supports windows OS ...
2 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Increase Data Insight PM Widget CSV Export data point limit to 900,000

TS018776038 (PC) - Issue with CSV Export in Data Insight – Empty file with large dataset. The issue with the empty CSV file is caused by a hard limit in DI's underlying API (v3), which is designed to return a maximum of 300,000 data points per req...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review