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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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Customer configurable ticker / banner that can be displayed to inform users of service / known issues

In the event for example that an issue is discovered with a gap in data, or an anomoly, it would be useful for us to have the capability to type a message that would be displayed as a banner / ticker when customers logon.
6 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Add Status Indicator in CLDY UI to confirm that cost data for previous days is fully uploaded/processed

It would be useful to have an indicator in CLDY UI which confirms the status of billing data uploading/processing. Currently users have to create reports (e.g. KPI or trend graph) to compare costs on a daily basis by Vendor (e.g. yesterday cost vs...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

language configuration on user basis not globally

TS018621329 Can RBAC be used to configure specific users to have a default language selection when logging into Turbonomic. I.E. A group of users are defaulted to German while another group if users are defaulted to English
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Enhance Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Integration Plugin to Support Uploading Files into Specific Bucket Folders

Currently, the Google Cloud Storage integration plugin (version 10.2.0.04) successfully uploads files directly to the root level of a specified GCS bucket. However, it lacks the capability to upload files into a specific folder (or prefix/subdirec...
12 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Allow for more than 15 columns in GROUPBY and allow admin to select limit and/or prompt users that additional time will be needed to group data

Background: We have a lot of fields in mapping files. In some cases, 20+ columns from a single field. We also have data and reports available at a very granular level. In one case, we have a table that is 3.5m rows per month with almost 100 mapped...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" under Credits

The Credits include "Savings Plan Negation" and "Contractual Credits". We need to include "Savings Plan Negation" but exclude "Contractual Credits" in order to obtain accurate forecasts. Please add more granularity for the type of Credits
13 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
19 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted