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Cleanup leftover files from previous version during future upgrades.

When upgrading IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS), vulnerability remediation updates often install newer component versions while leaving older versions on the system. For example, when a newer OpenSSL version is deployed, a new directory (such as OpenS...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Ability to share Reports/Dashboards/Views/Folders with the Program level (Solution Train/ART)

Currently, we have the ability to share reports and dashboards with People, Teams, and Portfolios -- it would be great to add the Program (Solution Train/ART) level. We have about 500 Teams and 100 Programs - it would be so much easier to be able ...
8 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Native monitoring support for Proxmox VE (nodes, VMs, containers and storage)

We are an IBM partner delivering managed cloud and infrastructure services. A growing number of our customers and prospects run Proxmox Virtual Environment, often as an alternative to VMware vSphere. Instana has no native support for Proxmox VE to...
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Enhance Automation Hub Google Cloud Run Plugin to Support Execution Overrides via run.jobs.runWithOverrides

Business Need As enterprise customers adopt Google Cloud Run Jobs for scheduled batch processing, they need both least-privilege access and dynamic workload execution. In strict enterprise GCP environments, workload orchestration service accounts ...
15 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Improve visibility of incomplete cost history used in Turbonomic savings calculations

Turbonomic can display valid optimization recommendations even when only a limited amount of billing history is available for a resource. In these cases, the associated monthly cost and estimated savings can appear significantly understated, with ...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Capture and expose hourly and daily user metrics and usage for analysis and debugging

Provides visibility into user workload on system and components at a point in time. Can be used to debug observed performance degradation. Can also be used to provide management visibility into overall usage and adoption. Some example metrics:&nbs...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Version Control Improvements for Business Mappings

Apptio Costing and Planning has a native version control that allows a monthly table to retain schema, layout, etc. from 1 time period to another (between versions). Cloudability's business mapping today requires users to add "Date" and manually s...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

Helm Charts for IBM Concert Protect Installation

Requesting IBM provide and maintain officially supported Helm charts for IBM Concert Protect deployments on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms. Today, Concert Protect deployments require customers to perform more manual installation and co...
2 months ago in Concert 0 Submitted

Single point of Netflow collection "DNC Leader"

My customer has found that managing Netflow export destinations to multiple SevOne DNC servers (or any adjacent extra legwork as a workaround to get to that point like VIPs, samplicator etc) to be administratively cumbersome. They would like to se...
5 days ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 0 Submitted