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Enable IBM DataPower Validation Credentials for TLS Client Profiles to support CA bundle / multi-certificate PEM files by importing and validating all certificates contained in a single PEM bundle.

Who would benefit: DataPower administrators, security teams, platform engineers, and enterprises managing outbound TLS connections would benefit by reducing manual certificate import effort, improving CA trust-store maintainability, and aligning D...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / DataPower Submitted

Allow Apptio KPI summary (e.g., CAPEX Total and Project Total) to be configurable or replaceable with metrics that better match business usage

Apptio plan summary KPIs currently display fixed tiles such as CAPEX Total and Project Total, which are automatically populated based on forecast plan data. However, in IBM CIO organization these metrics are not actively used, resulting in dashboa...
about 8 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Introduce a “Current Fiscal Year” default KPI display option in expense tab so summaries automatically align to the active fiscal year while still allowing users to change the timeframe as needed

Today, Apptio KPI summaries can display unexpected totals depending on individual user configuration (e.g., First Year of Plan, Selected Timeframe, or Rolling 4 Quarter Forecast). This often results in dashboards continuing to show prior‑year valu...
about 9 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Request to Separate Apptio Users from TargetProcess Users in Users tab and Environments Tab-Need additional Metadata column to Filter Apptio Users and Export.

Request to Separate Apptio Users from TargetProcess Users in Users tab and Environments Tab-Need additional Metadata column to Filter Apptio Users and Export.
about 9 hours ago in Apptio / User Management & Login Submitted

Improve the Alert Contextual Menu user interface by adding scroll support, proper layout structure, and clear navigation cues so users can easily view and navigate all available filter options.

In the Alert Contextual Menu, the list of available filter options does not display a scroll bar and lacks proper indentation or visual navigation cues between sections or pages. As a result, only a subset of available filters is visible at any gi...
about 14 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Add Pagination to the API call that loads lists of external groups within IBM Turbonomic

After creating 3k + external scoped user groups via a script. We are unable to reliably work in the UI as it takes up to 15-20 seconds for the list of groups to display and often displays the unresponsive pop up in the browser. As a general note i...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

stanctl install path for air-gapped and non-air-gapped need to be the same

The customer initially did their Standard Edition install using the air-gapped package. Per the installation instructions, stanctl is placed in /usr/local/bin. Later, the customer was able to get the Instana repos white listed and changed to onlin...
about 19 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Add ability to mark http status codes as errors though they are not in the 5xx range

Hi, Certain application owners in our organisation have the need to report error rates based on functional errors which are e.g. reported with a 412 (or other) http status codes. This is technically not an error and those requests are not marked a...
about 19 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Option to change the date format in the tool from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY.

Yorkshire Building Society mentioned that it would be simpler for them, if there was an option to choose/customize date format in the tool from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY to match the format being used in their organization.
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Watson Runbook Automation (RBA) Email Notification Option

Require the OOTB email notification for success or failure or the status of Runbook automation execution. It helps if the feature is working or not. Otherwise, every time we need to login to the GUI and verify the history of the automation trigger...
about 20 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted