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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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Make 'current_view' dropdown "stick" to the top of the current page

Hello, I want to submit a solution for making the 'current_view' dropdown stick on the top of the current page. I already made a proposal for fixing this which would make minor changes to the frontend. It will only move elements and make them stic...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Add an Export button in UI to export metrics/analytics data to a CSV file

The requested feature is to have a button in the UI to allow exporting metrics or analytics from a dashboard into a CSV file or other types of consumable files. This is needed for any large organization to enable the creation of basic reports to d...
6 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Adaptive smart alert show preview based on threshold 'corridors'

As users we found it difficult to understand the threshold preview for adaptive smart alerts shows as one line metric. We would favour threshold shown as range above und below the actual metric line which would show the user the corridor of normal...
6 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Make backend automations visible

We have run into a few instances where there are automations behind the scenes that affect entities in ways that are not desirable to the client.Often times these are feature toggles and we have been able to turn them off, but they are hard to tra...
11 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Submitted

Integration of Unit Testing for zCentric Agent Plugin Development

To make the plugin development process for the zCentric Agent more efficient and error-free, it is proposed to extend the existing framework by adding the ability for developers to create unit tests that simulate the agent's behavior. This would a...
11 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 15 Planned for future release

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

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