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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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Include .Zip format in Datalink File import and export connections

Datalink Classic used to allow files provided in '.zip' format to be imported and exported from Apptio Cost Transparency. This file format has been dropped in Datalink. This is a blocker for us to migrate from datalink classic to Datalink as our u...
about 10 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted

Retain user filters and formatting when production refreshes

When Production updates, filters, column pickers etc are rest to default. This is resulted in a bad experience for our users, they lose the focus on the data they were analyzing. In Demand Planning we collect data from thousands of users and this ...
about 6 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
about 15 hours ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Allow Anomaly Alerts to be sent to Jira

Please could we use the existing Cloudability Jira Cloud integration that is currently used by Rightsizing ROI to generate a Jira task for an Anomaly alert.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0

Freeze Environment and Settings When Scrolling Down

When in a BI report and scrolling down to various visualizations you lose the Environment box, along with the Current View box. Need that to stay in place/be visible when scrolling down.
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
10 days ago in Instana / Go 0 Submitted

Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 0 Under review

Log Anomaly Detection Alerts need improvement

The alerts generated by Log Anomaly Detection don't give an indication as to what the issue is. The Alert Summary only contains the template name. The Summary should be more user friendly..something like "log message xxxxxxx occurred x times" it t...
8 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

SevOne NPM should support netflow connection over TCP.

TCP is more secure and more reliable than UDP. As such, SevOne NPM should be able to support incoming netflow traffic over TCP in order to stay up to date with standards and customer expectations.
about 1 hour ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted