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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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Filter Behaviour in Planning Dashboard / Views

Similar to storing a filter in Expenses tabs via the Layout (e.g. Default Layout) storing a default filter in Dashboard view by Admin would be great.  Ideally can also define their own filters storing in their own "layout" that applies to das...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Schedule Datalink connectors multiple times per week

Datalink should allow connectors to be scheduled multiple days per week.  Currently, I can only run once per week on the day that I choose, or every day.  For example, I have no way of running a connector every Sunday and Wednesday. ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Audit History of Jira Profile

Today I found out that the setting that defines Parent-child relations disappeared on Hertz account. The profile is Targetprocess/Jira - v2. When you open Epic-Initiative and go to the section Sync nested entities during synchronization it was emp...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 0 Under review

Allow insert limit in Park override

Today if a user override a parket VM, they can choose between a end date or a number of hours. But someone with bad intentions can override for 1 year or 999 hours for instance. The admin should have a way to put limit on each override, like 2 hou...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Smart Alert - grouping/summary/templates

A function of other APMs that I've used is the concepts of summaries and group alert copy or alert templates. Summaries - In cases, when memory, CPU and or filesystems alert they do so together which is a single event. With a summary structure, wh...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Smart alerts should have a severity placeholder

With build " 1.282.1064" the smart alerts got a very useful ability to have warning and critical thresholds defined on a single smart alert. This was a welcomed change and reduce our planned alert set by half. However, we were also expecting to be...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1

Expansions of Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Decouple the smart alert title with the subject of the resulting email. Currently with the title and subject line being the same, the display for smart alerts shows the placeholders which have no real meaning in the context of smart alert listings.
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information

Display all affected MQ MFT Transfers and their TransferID metric values in an event or alert details.

Currently the list of all affected transfers and their IDs are present when viewing the IBM MQ MFT Agent dashboard during an incident/issue window, but they are NOT shown in the incident/issue Event or an Alert that triggered because of the Event....
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request: Enhanced Debug Logging for Netcool JDBC Gateway

I am raising this request an enhancement to the Netcool JDBC Gateway. Currently, there is no mechanism to identify problematic ObjectServer column information in JDBC Gateway debug logs. When issues arise with ObjectServer columns, such as varchar...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review