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Allow BYOK for data collection

This would allow client to own, supply and manage their own encryption key, stored in their own Key Management Services. At the moment, IBM/Apptio manage this process protecting the client data. This change would provide additional control over da...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Other 3 Future consideration

Request for Enhanced Reporting Options in Apptio Target Process

Summary - We are requesting the introduction of additional reporting options and expanded visualization capabilities within the BI environment to improve data accessibility, financial insights, and decision support across our organization. Enhance...
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

DASH, JazzSM: TreeTableWidget should NOT collapse after refresh

This idea refers to TS016394284. Ticket contains additional information and video showing the issue. TreeTableWidget can be used to show tree data in a good way. You can browse through the tree and select lines.One big problem is that the tree col...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
about 1 year ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Oracle support for CP4AIOps is needed

Currently only DB2 is supported, and then only on Linux. We don't have the required expertise to support DB2 in a production environment. Our Netcool Historical DB is on Oracle, so we would like to use that same instance. This is to begin to take ...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Optimisation Dashboard Savings reporting improvements

We would find the Optimisation Dashboard more useful if it reported savings consistently and in line with more standard business use cases. Without this, it is of limited usefulness to us and we would shy away from endorsing use amongst our users....
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Add NetUnblendedCost and NetAmortizedCost from the CUR to Gov Cldy

It would be useful to have these two metrics: NetUnblendedCost and NetAmortizedCost from the CUR added into Gov Cldy. My understanding is that they will be added to Commercial but there are no plans for adding them to Gov Cldy. Can these please be...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Under review

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration