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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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Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files vs only having it send to January and replacing monthly files. When loading files from ITP to CT would like the flexibility to have it drop in different months. For example  Ja...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
8 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Enable Database job type to authenticate to the Microsoft SQL Server DB via Domain service accounts

During work to meet an internal business security requirement the expectation to use Domain accounts was defined as a solution to mitigate the use of local service accounts within the Microsoft SQL Server DB security table. However, upon further i...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Schedule DataLink connectors by working days

Many of our customers manage the upload of the files in based on the working days, for example actuals are available on the 6th working day of the month Datalink allows this to be done only based on days and not working days, which can be affected...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Integrate, CyberArk with the Turbonomic

It is required to integrate, CyberArk with the Turbonomic tool is simply to have a single point of management for the service account credentials that we use in Turbonomic towards Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, AZURE). CyberArk Secrets Manager uses a ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Integrate the Remedy BMC Gateway with Remedy ITSM

We have had several customers requesting the gateway integration for Remedy ITSM v20. There is only this information which does not address how the existing nco_g_bmc_remedy should be configured: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/netcool-integr...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Add a WYSIWYG or Rich Text HTML Editor to the HTML Component

Please add a WYSIWYG HTML editor to the HTML component. Currently, there is only the option to edit in raw html. If you add a reference to an editor like TinyMCE (https://www.tiny.cloud), it would enable us to edit the contents of an HTML componen...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Bill of IT Data Sharing to 3rd Party Apps like Microsoft Power-BI

As TBMA, I get several requests from our Business and Technology Stakeholders  who want an API access from Apptio Bill of IT to feed data to 3rd  party Applications like Power BI which their team manage and own to integrate reporting dat...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Planned for future release