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Option to encode or not to encode the url before it is launched from the Client-side action.

Please allow an option to not encode a url. It would default to encode. It can provide a security warning if it is not encoded. Description:If a field has an encoded URL in it and we do not want the Client-side Automations Action to encode the fie...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Propose the creation of contextual menus within the Incident section of Watson AIOps to manage grouped incidents, similar to existing capabilities for individual alerts.

Currently, Watson AIOps allows specific actions to be executed through contextual menus within individual alerts. However, this capability does not exist in the Incident section, where multiple related alerts are grouped into a single incident. Th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Ability to rename subtabs on labor

Would like to be able to rename the data filter tabs (existing and planned) on the labor tab.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Functionality to export,edit,import IWS Database Objects in Excel (or some other form of spreadsheets)

This is an idea to add a functionality to export/import IWS Database Objects to/from IWS DB. Many IWS customers are requesting a functionality to export IWS Database Objects to a spreadsheet, edit them, then bulk import the objects back to IWS DB....
12 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Improve Rightsizing Preferences

** I'm using EBS as an example, but this would apply for all the services. ** Introduce the capability to customize Amazon EBS volume recommendations in Cloudability’s rightsizing preferences, allowing users to exclude specific EBS volume types (e...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 5 Future consideration

Enable Custom Certificate Duration and Support External Certificate Issuers for All Components in Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.x

During Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.x installation, the certificate creation step fails because the application default certificate duration does not align with the bank’s certificate manager requirements. Specifically, the default duration conflicts wit...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Cisco ACI Observer: Support Multi-Tenant Topology Discovery in a Single Job

Cisco ACI Observer: Support Multi-Tenant Topology Discovery in a Single Job
29 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

Cisco ACI Observer: Enable APIC Cluster Discovery via Load-Balanced VIP

Cisco ACI Observer: Enable APIC Cluster Discovery via Load-Balanced VIP
29 days ago in Concert 0 Submitted