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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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Display clients by Username or Computer Name in Flow report instead of IP address.

"Flow - Top Apps and Categories Detail" report is very nice.It is useful for me to find a user who most access the specific application by checking the "Top Apps > Top Clients" widget. But this widget displays clients by IP address. This is a b...
4 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

1. Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email Reports & 2. Ensure Full Feature Parity Between Data Insight and NMS Reports

Incorporate CSV Attachments in Email ReportsIntroduce the option to include raw data in CSV format as an attachment when generating and sending email reports through Data Insight. This feature is already available in NMS (vPAS) but is currently ab...
22 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Flow Rules and grouping Collectors

I would like a way to have a group of flow collectors in SevOne grouped then be able to use that group inside flow rules. Thus allowing me to have a USA group, An EMEA group and so on. Now I can easily say "For all flow collectors in the DNC_Japan...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Pareto chart - Cost Transparency

The Pareto chart is one of the most popular charts, as it allows users to quickly grasp the rate of the top X at a glance. This will enable TMBO to leverage Apptio for C-level reporting.
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Future consideration

Enable Option to Restrict Output in TopN or Performance Report When Device Group is Selected in a Variables option in DI report

Overview: When creating a report in DI (Data Insight), selecting a device group in the variables option results in displaying data for all devices and objects under that group. For example, if a site is selected as the device group and it contains...
6 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Ability to create your own additional 'tabs' based on the 'other' tab functionality

The 'other' tab starts to grow in volume, and often becomes a 'catch all' for expense types. If we have specific categories that these costs can be broken down into, it would be great if we could separate onto another tab and rename to be more app...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to customise the Summary tab - drills and KPI's

the Summary Tab - Waterfall and graphs are very useful but would be could if we could hide some of the KPI's eg. Capex and update the drill columns. Our users really find this report useful but would be more widely accepted if we could update the ...
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to only allow certain user groups to import data to Planning

Importing directly to the system has risks related to overwriting the data, and an average user is not capable or trained to be able to complete this reliably. We would like for this option to be only with Admin, or select users at Admin discretion
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to load customised public views at a plan-level, rather than system-wide shared

We have multiple user types that will not share the use of the same plans, and so we would like to customise the public views each of the users can see by plan. Currently this is set/shared for all Plans within Planning.
11 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration