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Display Error Details in Datalink History for Failures Caused by Deactivated ULS Service Account

For reference, we have observed that in some other scenarios (such as token expiration), error messages are displayed in the Details section as expected. In contrast, when the failure is caused by a deactivated ULS service account, no error messag...
about 5 hours ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) Submitted

Policies:  the ability to restrict Temporal/Seasonal policies based on Alert Restriction Filters, and restrict policies from Metric Anomalies based on Metric Restriction Filters.

Policies: the ability to restrict Temporal/Seasonal policies based on Alert Restriction Filters, and restrict policies from Metric Anomalies based on Metric Restriction Filters.
about 5 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

The ability to assign a permission to allow users to see Metrics.

The ability to assign a permission to allow users to see Metrics - if not enabled they don't see Metric right-hand side drop down for Alerts, and they don't see Metric Search.
about 5 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Direct query access to native cloud billing fields

Cloudability currently abstracts and normalizes all billing data from providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. While this enables unified cost visibility, it limits users' ability to validate and interpret data in "like-for-like" terms with the orig...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Ability to use filename of loaded data in HTML component

We have some automated file loads which include a timestamp in the filename. The timestamp is relevant for teams during critical month-end periods to understand what numbers they are looking at in Apptio reporting. We would like to be able to add ...
11 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Filtered import to include existing and planned

With the new filtered import we would like to see the ability to filter on the labor tab for existing and planned to then use the replace all functionality.
15 minutes ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

Source-Aware Ticketing for Cloud Optimization (Rightsizing Ticketing)

Currently, we have two ways to create Rightsizing tickets: Manually or via Automated Policy. However, both methods have a major "information gap" when they reach ServiceNow: Manual Tickets: ServiceNow doesn’t show who clicked the button to create ...
30 minutes ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Support for Kafka heap configuration in Standard Edition

Dear Colleagues, during PoC with one of our customers we were trying to adjust kafka configuration to handle increased load, and it appeared to be that we need to grant more memory and heap to Kafka. As soon as it is Standard Self-Hosted Instana b...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Add STARTTLS Support for SMTP Security Configuration

At present, the SMTP security dropdown provides only SSL and TLS options. Many modern email servers and enterprise security standards require or prefer STARTTLS for SMTP communication, as it allows encryption to be negotiated after an initial unen...
about 2 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Submitted

Export Users

using the commands in ITM under tacmd there are commands for export users, list users but there is no command to export a user and all the associated configuration / permissions / views etc for the user. This would be useful for when teams are mig...
about 4 hours ago in ITM/IBM APM Submitted