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API endpoint for User Management to allow customers to configure user profile characteristics such as auto-e-mails

Currently all users have summary e-mails enabled by default and only option is for all users to receive or all users not receive. Having a n API endpoint would allow us to programatically edit user profiles to provide a better user experience.
almost 2 years ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 2 Future consideration

Out-of-the-box vs Custom Reports

As a TBMA, I'd like to be able to pull a report that shows me which of our existing reports are out-of-the-box vs custom. We are building out a report dictionary and this is a field we'd like to have available. This will also help us work around u...
over 3 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Future consideration

Show "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O

Please add the metric "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O containers. I am aware that in the Instana UI, I can view the "Memory Working Set Usage %" metric for Containerd containers:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.310?topi...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

S3 scripting enhancement to allow index to be variable if the values of that variable is integer or another OID.

SNMP scripting documentation explains that "A variable cannot be used as an index number. The index number must be an actual number". Indeed, S3 fails if for example you try to get values of the last character of the string of variable length. Wit...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Instana should support LOKI as a log source

The latest versions of the OpenShift Logging Operator have dropped support for ElasticSearch and have moved over to LOKI. Instana needs to be able to use LOKI as a log integration source in order for us to maintain a vendor supported logging model...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

To retrieve the data follows a two-step asynchronous export/download pattern

Root cause: The REST connector is failing because the InvGate API returns a download link on a different domain in its pagination header, which is not currently supported by Datalink's Link-Header pagination method. InvGate Asset Management Public...
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Quick Add - hide entities based on the role permissions

Users who don't have role permissions to add entities still see the whole list - the idea is to hide the entities that they can not add from Quick Add form.
about 3 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration

Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Replace VMware tools shutdown command with SevOne shutdown command for proper shutdown

All VMware customers, would mean one triggered from the vCenter interface will then properly shutdown the machine. /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default/etc/vmware-tools/restart-vm-default
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration