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Allow Plan Status to be seen ungrouped when cost object is hierarchical and allow Modified Date filtering

When a plan is based on a hierarchical business mapping as the cost object, viewing the Status page is not very user friendly. The status is grouped by one of the hierarchical business mapping dimensions. This means one cannot sort by the modified...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

How to find pool/d-pool name for a dynamic agent, based on a command or SQL query

In order to find out a pool for a given dynamic agent, the current method is to take a dump of all CPU definitions and then search for the existing pool associated with the agent, however in huge environments where adding agents to pool is a frequ...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Provide Recommendations Tailor to Expiring Commitments

Currently, Cloudability doesn’t allow users to get recommendations for more commitments if there’s already a plan in place, even if it’s about to expire. It would be helpful if Cloudability could make recommendations for Savings Plans / other comm...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Planned for future release

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Enforce consistency across Automation Workflow Policy definitions

There is a lack of consistency across Policies when defining Automation workflows. For example, when creating a Database policy, there are four categories of workflow: Cloud DB scale (no toggle) Database suspend actions Database reconfiguration ac...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Under review

Need logged in user information available in tools/actions in cp4aiops

we have to validate the logged in user when a tool or action is ran against a particular alert. For that functionality to work , we need the logged in user as parameter to validate before the tool is ran.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

ITCAM MQ cfg SET QUEUE NAME should have a way to exclude queues

Currently the SET QUEUE NAME option in the MQ agent .cfg file is only able to include queues. This makes it difficult to exclude specific queue names such as SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE. Being able to use regular expressions in the selection of queues ...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Functionality already exists

Critical Websphere PMI metrics for Instana

Instana’s monitoring of WebSpehre metrics is inadequate for clients who are transitioning from ITCAM. ITCAM provides access to almost all of the PMI metrics and clients can use different sets of metrics as per their use case. For example, Enterpri...
3 months ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release