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Exclude traces from Java´s endpoints.

Optimizing data ingestion in Instana, customer needs to exclude tracing from Java´s endpoint,
10 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Would like Dashboards and Application perspective to be able to use dark mode

We have TV displays that show Infrastructure (which will show dark mode of browser) but the Dashboard and Application does not and is bright white. See additional details
11 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Categorization option for Filter Values

This idea is based on the case TS018542103. Categorizing in the custom quick filter is currently not possible as each and every custom entity is a unique entity itself. It would be great to be able to also have the option to cluster the values in ...
13 days ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Submitted

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement. Better value for "suggestion" field is highly desirable. It currently has so much undesired detail with line breaks unlike other alert "suggestion" field. Find actual alert paylod in a...
13 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Make backend automations visible

We have run into a few instances where there are automations behind the scenes that affect entities in ways that are not desirable to the client.Often times these are feature toggles and we have been able to turn them off, but they are hard to tra...
18 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Submitted

The idea is to restrict users from accessing a branch.

More specifically, users can only access the branch assigned by the admin. For example, Employee A can only work in Branch A and cannot access Branch B or C.
24 days ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Uninstallation instructions in the main documentation.

At present, the instructions provided at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-network-auto/1.1.x do not provide uninstallation instructions. While maybe not the most critical of things, it might help to include some uninstallation steps to remove an ...
25 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...

Role Visibility By Product

Currently, when assigning a role in Frontdoor, it displays roles from all IBM products, which causes confusion during the assignment process. Ideally, if roles are assigned within Cloudability, it should only show the roles that have permissions f...
28 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 1 Submitted