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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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New device support for ITNM Collector for Ericsson ENM EMS as tracked in case TS017711078

5G Core devices like UPF/SMF/AMF/NSSF/NRF are currently not recognized by the ITNM Collector for Ericsson ENM and thus doesn't have the support to process Discovery for these device types. Please confer with kmkodali@us.ibm.com.
2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Add a Dependency to Run Cycle Calendar

We would like the enhancement to ADD a Dependency to a run cycle Calendar
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Ability to "Freeze" rows for Actual Labor Headcount

Currently, under Labor Tab,  any Existing/ Actual Labor Headcount that is published to a Forecast Plan is editable by the Cost Center Owners. In some cases, these rows were inadvertently being updated or deleted by CC Owners that increases th...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Display [Description] field's text on mouse rollover of Editable Table's fields

As a TBMA, I would like to inform end users interacting with Editable Tables directly or via a report component of a field's description and other advice via mouse rollover pop-up text boxes to show that field's [Description] value. Such advice co...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

Product Enhancement Idea to show last Loaded File Name against an Apptio table

Who is the user or role? All the production users including BAU and Technical Team What is the user trying to accomplish? (think process not solution) At present there is no machnism to fetch the detail of File Name which has been loaded i...
5 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
5 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Future consideration

Get skupper-router in the SaaS product to use a valid cert signed by a public CA for TLS transport during token exchange with on-prem appliance

Token exchange is failing through our transparent Internet proxies because an untrusted internal CA certificate from the skupper-router is being used for both TLS transport and mTLS. The untrusted cert is causing the connection to be reset by the ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
12 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration