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Allow .csv imports of Azure Billing data when using indirect/3rd party vendor for EA agreement

We must purchase our EA agreement from a reseller, so we do not hold or have access to the EA level billing account. Without this we can not set up Azure billing, either with the API or with the import. It would be nice if we could import the data...
about 1 hour ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts Submitted

Edit Asset Loads by Month

I would like to have the ability to load assets by the purchase price and also edit by month if need be. Currently today the monthly allocations is controlled by the purchase price and then straight-lined by a reference table. I would like the abi...
about 2 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Missing reservation/AmortizedUpfrontCostForUsage Field

Currently rebuilding JPMC Environment and this field "reservation/AmortizedUpfrontCostForUsage" is utilized in the identifying the Amortized upfront fees. It appears that CLDY is dropping this field from CUR. Proposed solution within ticket #TS021...
about 4 hours ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) Submitted

On Pre-defined Job and Adhoc Job submission, change automated creation of JOBS default job stream on Plan to be by folder to enable better folder separation

Today, there's a little secret when submitting a Pre-defined Job onto the plan when you don't have an existing job stream on the plan to put it in: just put into the "Into Job Stream" field in DWC the following magic text: "/JOBS". On submission, ...
about 5 hours ago in Workload Automation Submitted

S3 bucket is encrypted with CMK for AWS CUR in Cloudability

We are currently evaluating access to our AWS Cloud-Financial billing bucket for third-party vendors. Cloudability require access to this bucket. Our current understanding is that Cloudability do not natively support Customer Managed Key (CMK) enc...
about 10 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government Submitted

Modification requested for the behavior of the "Default event deduplication policy"

We request that the behavior of the "Default event deduplication policy" be adjusted to exclusively handle deduplication, and not the Event to Alert Promotion.As of AIOps version 4.10, this policy has become mandatory for events to be promoted as ...
about 16 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Db2 Sensor support env

One way to avoid storing the password in the agent's configuration file is to allow the use of environment variables. This allows the DB2 sensor to accept environment variables. YAML com.instana.plugin.db2: enabled: true local: - instance: db2inst...
2 days ago in Instana / DB2 Submitted

Instana support Encriptation local password

We Have 25 cliente, Currently, all clients use Sentinel as their manager vault. Instana is limiting this to only accepting Hachicorp, and clients feel they are being forced to purchase Hachicorp. Clients are complaining because the data is stored ...
2 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Parking feature for OCI

Since we now have OCI resource optimization in place, it would be of great value to leverage the parking feature for VMs and databases in OCI as well.
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking Submitted

Event rule for checking status of job / job stream at specific time where deadline or max duration is not defined

We had a use case where we need to create event to check the job status or job stream status at particular time interval , where we do not have any deadline or until or maxdur defined. It would be very useful to have event triggering at specific t...
3 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted