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Named Custom Date Ranges for Reporting

Today, users can choose from standard absolute and relative date ranges (Last 7 Days, Month to Date, custom start/end dates, etc.) within each widget's or the UI's Time period selector. This is powerful but introduces friction for organizations wh...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

SSL Support for DB2 integration in Cloud Pak for AIOps

In a troubleshooting case that we have open, we have been informed that the DB2 integration for Cloud Pak for AIOps does not support SSL connection to the database. The security need for SSL should be self-evident; AIOps event data contains propri...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Provide SSL connections via the DB2 Connector in CP4AIOPs running on OCP

SSL connection for DB2 connector allows secure connections to DB2 from CP4AIOps. This will benefit customers who have a secure zone implemented in their environment.
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Enhance Cloud Visibility: Fetch VPC ID and VPC Name against VPC Services

Description: As an Apptio user, I'm facing challenges in fetching VPC ID and VPC name against VPC services. Currently, Apptio doesn't provide a straightforward way to retrieve these details, making it difficult to gain comprehensive visibility int...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

Cross platform disaster recovery support

Currently there is limitation of cross platform CP4AIOPS backup/restore, based on our email conversation with Neil Boyette (IBM) "In our current release for DR, we support Backup & Restore. When you use OCP then for Backup/Restore you can use ...
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

Make short Incident IDs be actually useful

The incident pages display a short ID like "abcd-efgh" for each incident. This is useful for a human to be able to identify an incident quickly (as opposed to the full UUID like 0000019d-637a-6322-0000-0000000411fc) These short-ids are apparently ...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

Need RPM install for IDOT OpenTelemetry collector

The customer has standard processes for installation. This includes the ability to bring in packages such as RPM packages into their repositories and scan the installation packages for security vulnerabilities. The IDOT self-extracting tar package...
6 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

BeeInstana‑Status im Instana‑Operator‑Log anzeigen

uring the deployment of the Instana backend, the operator log records the status of all databases – except BeeInstana. This creates confusion and hampers monitoring. Consolidate all database information in a single placeProvide full transparency d...
6 days ago in Instana / Logging Under review

Import tags from the OU in the org

The OU represents all the accounts nested underneath which removes the need to tag each account specifically. If an account is moved to another OU it will inherit the tags instead of manually updating them.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations / Views Under review

Report on GCP Coverage rate as it appears in the Commitment Portfolio

GCP Coverage reporting is not supported in Cloudability reports or dashboards. In order to view, the user must go to the Commitment Portfolio module. Users can create reports and dashboards to view AWS Coverage, but not GCP. For mature FinOps prac...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review