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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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Per-Vendor Exchange Rate Configuration for Multi-Currency System

Today, Cloudability’s Multi-Currency System (MCS) allows organizations to consolidate costs into a single currency using a global exchange rate. However, many enterprises operate in environments where each vendor or contract may use a different ex...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

URGENT - Add "NESTING DETAIL" and "NUMBER OF NESTINGS" parameters to RestAPI used by WAPL jobs in order to mitigate slow response times related to networking. this IDEA has been suggested by IBM support

UNIPOL needs to use DWC REST API queries in order to monitor his TWS scheduling infrastructure. Specifically, he wants to check the status of a jobstream in the current plan, and all the jobs it contains. In case a job is not COMPLETED, we launch ...
8 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

There can be scorecard based widgets in Dashboards or ApptioBi which can be used for Reporting.

It will be a good resource for my customer. Using this they will be able to create something high-level reports which will be easily digestible by leadership teams
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Other 0 Future consideration

Anomaly Detection - Cost Metric Configuration

Current State: Cloudability’s anomaly detection feature currently uses Cost (Total) as the only basis for identifying anomalies in cloud spend. Problem: Cost (Total) does not reflect the actual financial impact to the business because it excludes ...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Device Manager Alerting exclude option

By default all alert types are shown. Sometimes you only want to exclude certain types such as Debug. Instead the only way is to have to select every available option. NMS provides a better way of doing this using a tick option - by default everyt...
9 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Report Linking "excludes" operator

DI Report Linking only provides the "includes" operator. Require the "excludes" option. We have reports that need to be excluded for specific cases but enabled for all.
9 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
9 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Currently Maps can be found by searching by name, cannot search for devices and then see/click on the map the device is on.

Being able to search for the device and see the related Map it's on would save time, rather than the limitation of only a 'map name' search.
14 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Additional sanitization for Webhooks

Certain SevOne json payloads are affecting service now webhooks and can't be parsed properly if they contain special characters (such as : ). Request to further sanitize our webhook payloads in a more compatable format that service now can accept.
15 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Line item filter that filters both ways - check for valid combinations

I have a situation where planners need to plan investments in Planning tool. I have created a custom dimension for investment and line item filter to filter the investment based on cost center. If the planner starts with entering a cost center, th...
15 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration