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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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Able to Create alerts/Incidents from Syslogs ingested for log anomaly detection

Consider exploring the possibility of applying incident policies or rules to create incidents/alerts once syslogs are ingested for log anomaly detection, similar to how we manage alerts. This could expand the functionality beyond just log anomaly ...
5 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Avoid duplicating work to submit Ideas for items already told to TAM

Even though we meet with and have an established relationship with IBM for multiple products with TAM. Share our current roadmap and needs many times. But are instead told, must open idea on website. And IBM is telling us to open an idea on the IB...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
5 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Request to Add Timestamp Column for All Transactions in Target Process

Dear Team, Could you please ensure that a timestamp column is included for all transactions in the Target Process . It is important that moving forward, all entries capture the timestamp consistently to maintain accurate tracking and reporting. Re...

Multiple SSH Integrations

Allowing multiple ssh integrations in AIOps will allows an administratior creating the runbooks to select different jump hosts/ssh hosts to run the SSH Scripts. This will be quite helpful in scenarios where the client network is segregated into di...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Option to run Actions in Parallel inside the Runbook

Currently AIOps Allows the administratiors to create the runbooks with mulitple actions steps inside them however they limit the user from running the actions in parallel. Only Sequential run of the actions is allowed in the current functionality....
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
2 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Cloudability: S3 Bucket Prefixes

We are trying to use Apptio to analyze my AWS costs, but I noticed that it doesn't support S3 bucket prefixes. That means I can't filter or group my data by different prefixes within the same bucket. That's a bummer, because I have a lot of prefix...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted