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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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To Exports Targets from Targets section

This would be useful as all other exports that are used for cost board packs for ex co come from Apptio Planning barr the targets as you cannot export them.
5 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

"N" Number of agents should be update at once.

If we are changing the mode Auto/On in the com.instana.agent.main.config.UpdateManager.cfg file. The agent will take automatic update. But, The mode should be OFF only, because as per SMBC standards, for any updates we should follow change request...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Uninstallation instructions in the main documentation.

At present, the instructions provided at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-network-auto/1.1.x do not provide uninstallation instructions. While maybe not the most critical of things, it might help to include some uninstallation steps to remove an ...
9 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
22 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Managing policies through APIs

The temporal training resulted in a really large set of insights, with over 50 thousand results. As the operators review the generated policies, we need enable, disable, or achive policies frequently. However, doing that through the UI is really t...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Stop calculating previous years in development

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. We've noticed data from 4 years ago calculating in "Development" that we don't need to calculate, which are extending calculation times. We only publish ...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Overwrite Capability for Custom Calendar

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. Need overwrite capability for custom calendar. Not able to update our custom calendar after it's loaded once; you can only append dates. It's rare, but o...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Not under consideration

Date functions should utilize custom calendar

We operate on a 4-5-4 fiscal calendar and implemented the 445 custom calendar in our project. Date functions are pulling based on calendar and not the custom calendar we are utilizing. For example, in our custom calendar, September (our P8) starts...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review