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Enable customers to upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to automatically create or update Business Mapping statements with built-in validation and one-click rollback

Today, users cannot upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to create or update Business Mapping statements.Because of this limitation CSMs/TAM/Admins must manually convert customer files into statements. Large Business Mapping updates (doz...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
14 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
13 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Could 'AWS Cloud WAN' be assigned to ATUM Service Category 'Network'

It is currently 'unallocated'. Therefore WAN (wide area network) charges are NOT picked up in the Network section as they should. This makes all reporting based on ATUM Service Category 'Network' incomplete.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

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