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Add destination time periods for "Start of Current Period's Year" and "Start of Previous Period's Year"

Data often needs to be loaded into yearly versions through Datalink. In these cases, the destination time must be manually set to a specific period or month, which requires all connectors to be updated at the start of each new year to point to the...
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Exclude Expired Policies from Alerts Information Page (Temporal Correlation Drop‑down)

Enable an option to automatically hide or exclude expired correlation policies from the Temporal Correlation drop‑down on the Alerts Information page.This ensures users only see active and relevant policies when investigating any specific alert. R...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Visualization and Optimization of Oracle PDB Resources

(This is a duplicate to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-1478 , to make this idea visible to the customer as well.) Customer is running on-prem instances of Oracle, which has CDB and PDB (Multitenant Architecture.) We would like to request the ...

Allow Multiple Metadata Fields in Device/Object Group Membership Rule

As we are using Metadata fields to store device or object extra static data, we are facing challenge of only one metadata field can be used in Device/Object Group Membership Rule. Sometimes we can get by creating multiple rules to mimic 'OR' multi...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Automatic ServiceNow Incident Creation when Anomaly Alert Threshold is triggered

Currently creating a ServiceNow Incident from a Cloudability Anomaly requires manual action a Cloudability user must navigate to the Anomaly page click on the three dot menu and select "Create Service Now issue " for each anomaly individually . We...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Publish Standard Self hosted air-gapped packages available to download via http

Dear Colleagues, we have several customers with strict security policies refusing them from granting Internet access to environments where Instana backend runs. Hence everytime they struggle with downloading air-gapped package of 25Gb in size now....
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Need parameter to dynamically pull "previous month" data via API URL

This would help our customer be able to automate API queries that require previous month data, which is not currently supported.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Add capability for "rules" in topology to be run manually

Add capability for the "rules" in "topology" to be run manually for debugging reasons. now. it only runs at the end of a job. but some jobs run for hours. e.g. itnm..but the data is already in the resource json. so the rule should be able to run w...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Dedicated Communication Channels and Port Separation for TWS Components

Business Requirement We would like IBM to consider enhancing TWS communication architecture by providing dedicated communication channels and configurable ports for different access methods, such as APIs, OCLI, and Dynamic Workload Console (DWC). ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Not under consideration

Manage user preference

As a customer, we would like allow every user can change is preferences in Cloud Pak UI. At this stage, when a user logon, solution detect language and provide UI in web browser language, end user timezone and date/time format aligned with web bro...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration