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Categorized OPEN Problem aggregation on IBM i

Provides the ability to track and aggregate open problems by PROBLEM_CATEGORY or PROBLEM_TYPE based on relevant PROBLEM_STATUS criteria, as well as trigger event notifications when any category count exceeds a defined threshold. Core functional en...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Hardware Resource Status Monitoring on IBM i

Enables the system to retrieve and list the operational status of all hardware resources, triggering automated event notifications whenever a resource deviates from its desired state (for example, STATUS <> 'OPERATIONAL') Source: QSYS2.HARDW...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Add support for Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) for enterprise SSO for Concert SaaS

Please add support for Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) as an enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) provider for Concert SaaS. Requested capabilities: Official support for Microsoft Entra ID as a third-party Identity Provider (IdP) for Concert SaaS. Docume...
3 months ago in Concert 0 Submitted

CFP: Add Approval Workflow to Plans in CFP

Apptio Planning (formerly IT Planning) provides an approval workflow process with trackabliity of those approvals/denials. Applying a similar process to the plans in CFP would be beneficial because it would allow to keep that auditability within t...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning 0 Planned for future release

CFP: Comment Box PopOut

When updating a plan in CFP, there is a comment field. If users are very wordy and put lots of information in that comment field, then the only way to view all of that information is to make the Comment field wider. Would it be possible to either ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning 0 Submitted

CFP: Add Comment field to the status page

When updating a plan, you can populate the Comment field explaining why you made a change. The Status Tab of Plans in CFP currently shows the Plan Dimensions, Last Modified Date, Last Modified By and FY$. It would be helpful for the Comment field ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Planning 0 Submitted

Kubecost Integration with JIRA for Automated Ticket Creation

It would be valuable to have a native integration between Kubecost and JIRA that allows JIRA tickets to be automatically created from Kubecost recommendations. This capability would help teams operationalize cost optimization recommendations by au...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers 1 Not under consideration

Identify, similar to AWS and Azure tags/labels, where GCP LABEL values are being defined by prefixing the GCP Label KEY with that information

(I use tags and labels interchangeably, but i do mean that we use GCP Labels) For AWS, account level tags/labels are prefixed like: cldy:aws:accountleveltag:cost_center. For Azure subscription level tagslabels are prefixed like: cldy:azure:subscri...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Customized landing pages based on Personas

I would need to have different landing pages (reports) customized to each Persona in Front Door. Thus, everyone would land on a set of reports tailored to their use cases.
over 3 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Planned for future release

User permissions to deny access to cost and reporting API

Creating service users with roles that are able to access APIs such as anomaly detection and budgeting without allowing the user to access cost and reporting API access. Allowing access to cost and reporting can cause security concerns with resour...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Future consideration