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Add SharePoint Connector to Datalink

Background and Reason for Request: Currently, it is possible to integrate data from SharePoint folders using the existing "REST Service" connector. However, this method only supports Client Secret authentication and does not support Certificate-ba...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Submitted

Support Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation for Google Cloud Service Account Authentication in IBM Turbonomic

IBM Turbonomic currently requires a Google Cloud service account JSON key file to authenticate when configuring Google Cloud workload monitoring, as described in the IBM documentation: IBM Turbonomic – Setting up a Google Cloud service account for...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Cleanup leftover files from previous version during future upgrades.

When upgrading IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS), vulnerability remediation updates often install newer component versions while leaving older versions on the system. For example, when a newer OpenSSL version is deployed, a new directory (such as OpenS...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Add SHA-256 Authorization Protocol Support for SNMPv3 Trap v3 Receiver in IBM SevOne NMS

Currently, IBM SevOne Trap v3 Receiver supports only the following Authorization protocols: NONE (usmNoAuthProtocol) MD5 (usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol) SHA (usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol) The request is to enhance the Trap v3 Receiver configuration by adding...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

The DNS Plugin needs to monitor DNS-related metrics in SevOne NMS

The DNS plugin needs to monitor the following DNS-related metrics in SevOne NMS: Delegation SOA synchronization DNSSEC validity RRSIG expiry
8 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Cloudability Dashboards & Reports: Calendar-Aligned Rolling Date Ranges and Visualisation Granularity Control

TL;DR Cloudability's date picker offers a Rolling option on custom ranges, but it operates at day level only — there is no way to define a rolling range that shifts by a complete calendar month, quarter, or half. Named calendar-aligned presets sto...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

Add a Status filter to the Related targets panel

When viewing related targets (from Targets page, select "three-dots" menu & pick View then select the Related targets (#) tab, it can be difficult to see targets with a specific state. In the attached screenshot, there are 202 total targets. N...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Cloudability Views: Remove Dimension Restrictions and Add Advanced Grouped Filter Logic

TL;DR Views filters are restricted to three Vendor dimensions and force customers to consume scarce Business Dimension or Account Group slots purely for View scoping. Because Views underpin Budgets, Forecasts, Dashboards, and user access boundarie...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
20 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Capture and expose hourly and daily user metrics and usage for analysis and debugging

Provides visibility into user workload on system and components at a point in time. Can be used to debug observed performance degradation. Can also be used to provide management visibility into overall usage and adoption. Some example metrics:&nbs...
10 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review