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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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Re-order pages

Introduce the possibility to re-order the pages in an ApptioBI report. When you create the report and the pages, maybe you don't have a clear vision of how many pages will you finally create and which order makes sense. Also for existing reports y...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

We need the plans feature to automatically add new accounts to existing plans

If the plans feature cannot automatically add new accounts, it will be highly inconvenient for customers. Manually adding or recreating a plan for each new account is extremely time-consuming. I recommend that the product team adjust the feature t...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

A new line formatting on the "Define email body" section feature of the Email Subscription

Untruncated text in the Email Body field of Email Subscription "Define Email body" option is essential to deliver a comprehensive message ensuring the recipients receive the message as intended by the IT Finance team. This is to guarantee that cri...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

LDAP redundancy

Customer is wondering on a setup with multiple LDAP servers, could we have a redundancy scheme whereas if an LDAP server fails, another on the list would take over.
11 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Scorecard can have historical data option

My customer is looking for scorecard data for more than 30 days. As of now in scorecard there is only two option either we can choose look back period of last 10 days or 30 days.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Regarding the Rightsizing Score table on the Scorecard

In the current Cloudability Scorecard, accounts that are not connected are still shown with a rightsizing score of 100. Since connected accounts with no recommended actions are also displayed as 100, this makes it difficult to clearly distinguish ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).
12 days ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Submitted

Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
12 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords
12 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted