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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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Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page

Direct launch of GIS Map View link on the NOI WebGUI & AIOps Common UI page. Currently this is not the case and you have to go 3-4 clicks to reach the GIS Map view, either using a topology dashboard or viewer or from an alarm event viewer page.
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 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 ...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

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...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 5 Under review

Add Cloudability Rightsizing ROI endpoint data to Apptio BI for reporting

The reporting on the Cloudability ROI screen is very primitive and doesn't allow for each reporting of rightsizing tickets and savings. Please add the dataset to Apptio BI so it can be integrated with standard user reporting.
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Make the select after REST inserts into the ObjectServer optional

When an insert into the ObjectServer is made using the REST interface, a select is performed afterwards to ensure the insert was successful. However, when the inserted Event is cancelled in a trigger before insert, there's an error message in the ...
3 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

reduce alerts for Redundant Application Servers SAP

s it possible to use the SAP message server (which has an overview of all application servers) to monitor the application servers, in order to avoid Instana raising alerts for a down server when a replica is still ensuring service continuity?
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Security: Provide Option to restrict Logins to one per user

Currently, AIOps does not prevent a single user from logging in multiple times using e.g. different browsers and/or different hosts (phone, laptop etc). This is desirable for many use-cases but violates a single-login-per-user policy. Many organis...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review