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Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 13 Planned for future release

Request for the addition of a feature in the treemap report that allows the tile size and the amounts displayed on hover (actual amount and variance) to be aligned based on the same fiscal year.

Regarding the treemap report, due to Apptio’s current specifications, it is not possible to align both the tile size and the amounts displayed on hover (actual amount and variance) based on the same fiscal year. Therefore, we would like to request...
25 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Planned for future release

Ability to monitor shared drive on Windows Server (SMB)

Request for Instana to add the ability to be able to monitor Windows shared drives (using SMB) in the same fashion that Linux NFS mount points are currently monitored. I am currently using Windows 2016 and Windows 2022 Standard Edition.
10 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Support Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to enable secure, standardized AI assistant integration with Apptio.

We would like Apptio to support the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable secure and governed integration with AI assistants and LLM-based tools. MCP provides a standardized way for AI systems to discover and interact with enterprise tools and AP...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 1 Planned for future release

Kafka integration Enhancement request

1. Add Kafka Header Support in Consume Current behavior: Consume returns only topic, partition, offset, key, value, timestamp. Missing: Kafka headers. Customer request: Expose headers in the correct Kafka format — an ordered list, allowing duplica...
13 days ago in Concert Workflows 1 Planned for future release

Need an Oracle connector as an alternative to DB2 conector for reporting and visualisations with third party tools

Currently CP4AIOps only have a Out Of the Box connector/integration with DB2 and Cognos is used for dahsboarding and reporting. The customer has been looking to connect the Oracle databse for reporting to build custom dashboards. Customer is curre...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Plan function, moving VMs from Vmware onprem to Openshift Virtualization

We have a Strategic customer (already Turbonomic customer) in Italy, with a strong deadline (end of 2026) to migrate Vmware -> RH openshift virt.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

BCM Control-M Integration

Docs: https://documents.bmc.com/supportu/API/Monthly/en-US/Documentation/Automation_API_Guidelines.htmSpecs: http://aapi-swagger-doc.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
10 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Concert Workflows: Improve Netmiko functionality for dealing with CISCO switches.

CISCO IOS requires certain actions from Telnet in order to connect and run commands that aren't supported by Concert Workflows. Netmiko, runs using Telnet (as well as SSH) and would require enhancements in order to work with a wider selection of C...
11 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Planned for future release