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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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Automating zero-value row removal to enhance efficiency & accuracy in forecast & budget plans in ITP

Requesting an enhancement to IT Planning (ITP) to improve efficiency and accuracy by automating the removal of zero-value rows from annual forecast plans and budget plans. The current manual process, conducted twice per year, presents opportunitie...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Restrict addition of Percentage columns in Apptio -Non-summable

We have an option to restrict row totals in Apptio for any field (By selecting Summable/Non-summable option in the formula ). But the same option is not working fine when the column total is happening. Percentage values cannot be summable, the cal...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Working hours also on Flow widget

Hi, we are in POC with HCL and they would like to have "working hours" setting also to work with flow widget. At the moment it works with "performance" widget but when we try to add flow widget to the report we cannot see working hours reflected i...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Needs more information

Generic Configuration-based SDK

Generic Configuration-based SDK When working with the Configuration-based SDK, customer wants to use each class-method pair under "sdk.targets" in a generic way, not individually. To summarize, Instead of this one: sdk: targets: - match: type: cla...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Planned for future release

How to set a password for the KeyStores and TrustStores when deploying IWA with Kubernetes/Helm Charts.

The password used to create the KeyStore and TrustStore is randomly generated. Even though it can be retrieved from the env variable SSL_PASSWORD or decoding the stash (sth) file, a facility must be provided to set it to a desired password. The fo...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Update ITM Situation Forwarder

hasn't been updated since 6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0003 and its functionality depends on a 32-bit version of libnsl, which has been dropped in newer versions of Operating Systems, e.g. SLES 15, RHEL 8.Thus, (ITM Situation Forwarder) stops to work when OS...
3 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Support boards with many-to-many relations for vertical and horizontal lines

Customers who wants to create certain boars, however values many to many are unavailable if other lane has also many-to-many relations - for example Period and Teams - then 2 boards needs to be created
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

we want to see the application pools as individuals applications

we dont want to see application pools, because we cannot make dashboards of the ones that are inside the application pool.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration