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Spend limit alert

When users introduce data in Planning, they are asking for an alert so that they don't exceed their budget. If for that cost line they can spend 1000 but in January 2024 they have written 1100, there should be some sort of alert. Same if they put ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Set the remote monitoring interval for Oracle database

In TS015830047, IBM Support Services responded that the expected behavior for remote monitoring of Oracle DB is that if the connection fails, it will only be retried after a 10 minute interval. It's a long time to be unable to monitor for 10 minut...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Add support for Blocking sessions - Cassandra

Verizon is requesting support for providing number of and list of blocking sessions in Cassandra.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Show docker container name in VM view

we are running some of our applications in docker containers. We would like to see the name of the running container within the instana "breadcrumb" view. In the VM View we have the same Problem. We can see a number of Redis instances, but we can ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Enable/Disable the anual/quarterly columns

I know that they can be hidden, but client keeps complaining that they accidentally press the year or quarter column, and then it linearizes the value present in the year column into the 12 months, overwriting any value that might be manually regi...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Publish from Labor Activity Tab

When publishing from the labor activity tab, there is no indication or confirmation of what they are pushing.  Would be good to  provide an indicator of what you are publishing (FTE or Hours) or provide a choice/box to select 
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Support sensor for enterprisedb (EDB)

EnterpriseDB (EDB) is IBM's strategic direction for Postgresql databases. Many IBM solutions including watsonx, IBM Cloud Paks/Foundational Services, and more will be using EDB going forward. EDB is also a strategic direction for IBM as we are an ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Limit capabilities to export to Excel in ITP

Have an access administration permission just like CT "CanExportExcel" but for limiting exporting from ITP
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to add Cell wise comment on the IT-Plannning Expenses page

Users have demanded an ability to add cell wise comments similar to Microsoft Excel. For e.g. If a expense has T&M billing then each cell will have a different forecast value and the user needs the ability to save comment on each cell. 
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration