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Functionality to be able to reorder rows within planning

Functionality to be able to move rows to reorder. Similar to the drop and drag functionality of the columns.
over 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Services

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Ansible Tower backed Services. (ServiceAnsibleTower). In previous versions, the output of the Ansible Tower Job would display in in Services -> My Services -> <service name>. This no longer the ca...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Future consideration

Missing mount point monitoring

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors mount success with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs of what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCAN KLZ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Miss page_sets parameters in Instana thresholds

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors MQ pages (percentiles and total) with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situa...
over 3 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor Future consideration

RBAC-Delegated administration

Separate permissions on access scope level should be introduced that allow/deny configuring application perspectives teammembers and their roles/permissions events ...
about 7 years ago in Instana / Access Control

Resynch Policies in Memory without Restart

We have experienced corruption in the [ /opt/IBM/tivoli/impact/etc/SERVER_policylist ] files between cluster nodes on several occations. In order to resolve this we have been forced to do the “createPolicyList.sh” or “rebuildPolicyList.sh” and bot...
about 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Not under consideration

PI adaptive model definations

Predictive Insights product is not able to deal with adaptive input stream
about 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Not under consideration

Display the actual state of a resource in an "Unavailable" state

In legacy PMC, today, we would mark a resource in an "Unavailable" state because the actual state of this resource is not explicitly mapped. This is an issue for the user because it is unclear what error state this resource is in and so there is n...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Planned for future release

Add more options for "start" time for Release Markers API.

Using Cloud Pak for Integration, our CI/CD Pipeline uses ArgoCD and Argo Notifications. Argo Notifications does not support UNIX timestamp in milliseconds. Only seconds or microseconds. It would be very helpful if for example the Releases API coul...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Common Not under consideration

Under Infrastructure the IBM ACE Message Flow view shows the Flow Nodes associated with the Messageflow and has a single Maximum Elapsed Time for each node; we would also like an Average Elapsed Time for each Flow node as well.

As stated above, displaying the Average Elapsed Time for each message flow node for the selected timeframe would provide a great deal of value when using Instana to track Message Flow performance. As a 2nd ask, and of lesser priority, would it als...
over 3 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor Future consideration