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Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

While IBM ACE delivers strong core integration and messaging capabilities, ISO 8583 TCP/IP transaction flows currently rely primarily on native logging and flow‑level diagnostics, which offer limited centralized observability and real‑time operati...
19 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Allow customization of alert colors in Data Insight

Currently, alert severity colors in SevOne Data Insight (Critical, Major, Minor, Warning, etc.) are fixed and cannot be customized. The existing Custom Themes feature only supports changing the Brand Color (a single global accent) and selecting a ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 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 ...
3 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Submitted

Request for Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8.0.11 tracing support

Hello, We are doing an Instana POC, and we need your support on the .NET Npgsql tracer. The application to be monitored is deployed on AWS ECS Fargate. Also, it connects to AWS Aurora (Postgres) DB using the Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8...
9 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Preserve Users and with all their access on product upgrade

Currently all users and there access have to be recreated after a version update of the IBM Concert product. For a customer with many users this means the creation of self written automation tools for a product base function. The product should pr...
4 months ago in Concert Submitted

Be able to more easily rename a custom field in all locations

I just did an exercise in renaming hundreds of fields from the budgeting solution (For Example Proposed > Forecast) so that terms would match across all systems. It would be great if this functionality was easier, if the name was changed it cha...
11 days ago in Targetprocess / Other Submitted

Improve filtering options in Custom Dashboard tables

Custom Dashboard tables in Instana have limited filtering capabilities. They do not support wildcards, short string searches (e.g., 2‑character suffixes), or basic operators like contains, starts with, or ends with.For use cases such as Oracle Gol...
25 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
28 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Punctuation in TBM Studio

In TBM studio in regular tables all sums below a table are shown without comma or dots between three digits. That means when you have 10000000 is hard to read. I would like to have 10.000.000 or 10,000,000 or even spaces would be okay. 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio Submitted

Ability to show number of log ins per day and who they are

Currently you can only see 'last log in date' for users which limits the reporting we're able to do We need to be able to see how active users are, not just their last log in date and also see where there are any spikes in log in activity due to c...
26 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports Submitted