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User permissions to deny access to cost and reporting API

Creating service users with roles that are able to access APIs such as anomaly detection and budgeting without allowing the user to access cost and reporting API access. Allowing access to cost and reporting can cause security concerns with resour...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government Submitted

Template explosion and limited extraction in Cloud Pak for AIOps (LAD)

Customers using Cloud Pak for AIOps Log Anomaly Detection (LAD) struggle to manage rapidly growing volumes of log templates due to high variability and insufficient structure in ingested log data. This “template explosion” reduces the effectivenes...
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Metric Explorer for Instana

Elevance Health has this capability in the Broadcom Wily tool and it was very convenient. It is lacking in Instana.
1 day ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Singularity (now Apptainer) Monitoring

While giving a Demo to St.Jude as a prospective customer they asked us about Instana and Container monitoring , specifically on a container software called Apptainer (formerly Singularity) which they are required to use. this was asked byt the HPC...
1 day ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Global Calendar Configuration Request for Roadmap view

We would like to request the ability to configure a global calendar setting within Apptio TargetProcess "Roadmap view" that allows administrators to define a standard date range (start and end dates) applicable across all users and workspaces. Cur...
1 day ago in Targetprocess / Reports Submitted

File watcher job that can monitor cloud storage like Azure blobs and S3 buckets

We have manu business teams migrating from traditional file stores using DFS / SMB to Azure blobs and AWS S3 buckets. They would still like the ability to run jobs based on file creation or other events in these new storage types.
1 day ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Greater visibility of AT times in the DWC

The integration of AT times as an explicit, visual dependency within the Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) would bridge a critical gap between time-based scheduling and dependency logic. Currently, an At time often acts as a silent gatekeeper; a job ...
1 day ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Easier view of "Carry Forward" jobs from the previous Plan

Integrating a Carried Forward indicator directly into the Monitor Job Streams and Orchestration Monitor views would fundamentally transform how operators manage day-to-day plan transitions. Currently, identifying job streams that failed to complet...
1 day ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Failed to detect Integration Node failure

There is no way to detect Integration Node failure using either built-in or custom metrics in EVENT. The only way is to use "system rules - offline event detection" to trigger event right after Integration Node failure. However, several issues wit...
1 day ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Submitted

Adding dependencies to individual run cycles

We'd like to be able to add dependencies to individual run cycles. We currently can't do this. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We have to do it on the command l...
1 day ago in Workload Automation Submitted