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Support if-then logic in custom metric

Would make reporting MUCH more powerful
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI Future consideration

Ability to Share Individual Dashboard Widgets in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability dashboards do not support sharing individual widgets. Users are required to share the entire dashboard, even when they intend to collaborate on or distribute insights from a single visualization. While reports can be shared...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Wrap text in list views and reports to fit longer text strings on the screen

This would help for overview and share information in e.g. meetings that more information could fit on the screen. If there is a lot of information that you want to display, not all columns fit on the screen.
11 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience Future consideration

Platform feature flags should be turned on by default (VMware, Power HMC, etc.)

The feature flags to enable capabilities like VMware, Power HMC, zHMC, SAP, etc. should be enabled by default. By not enabling these, we drive up our support costs and drive down customer satisfaction. Now, we do need to think about the best way t...
13 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Future consideration

on a roadmap feature's descriptions should not be truncated by the width of the planned start/end dates settings

on a roadmap just add a feature with a decsription and if the planned start/end dates aren't long enough to fit that description it truncates it. it should keep rendering the text if there are no features that it would overlap.

Standard Edition sizing must take into account HPA

The sizing in the documentation and our sizing tools must take into account HPA auto-scaling. We've had environments with customers where the HPA created editional pods to the point where pods are getting evicted. Two things should happen: The HPA...
14 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Future consideration

Optimisation Dashboard Savings reporting improvements

We would find the Optimisation Dashboard more useful if it reported savings consistently and in line with more standard business use cases. Without this, it is of limited usefulness to us and we would shy away from endorsing use amongst our users....
21 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Line Item Filters: Allow pre-filtering currency based on location

We use location as country/legal entity. Our planning in local currency needs to ensure that all countries only plan in their respective local currencies. e.g. USA only plans in USD, Spain only in EUR, China only in CNY. Current Currency filter re...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Reintroduce deprecated Topology widget layouts in SevOne Data Insight

In earlier versions of SevOne Data Insight, the Topology widget supported multiple layout options, including Organic, Sequential, Lens, Standard, Structural, and Tweak. These layouts provided flexibility in visualizing network maps in a structured...
22 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration

Improve Export Reports from Instana

Instana could be better if your reports has been simple. and let to integrate for example 1 2 or 3 ...N Lpar statitics in the same reporte CPU, ASP, Active Jobs, Subsistems, etc... because the current export reports are so simple, right now instan...
23 days ago in Instana / IBM i Future consideration