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Add team association to Automation actions

While using tags and setting the matching tags in team scope to limit access of users to Automated actions, HSBC would like to have the same direct team association available.
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Automation 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic CPU Throttling Prevention - Container Spec

Issue: After Turbonomic reduces vCPU limits based on utilization, CPU throttling occurs (80-90%), requiring the limit to be increased again 1-2 days later, potentially causing performance degradation across services and requiring Atruvia OCP team ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 6 Under review

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic support for Management Group scope Reservations (Azure)

As a Cloud Administrator, I would like Turbonomic Actions to consider my Reserved Instances scoped to my Management Groups in Azure so I can ensure that the actions being recommended by Turbonomic will not scale out of an RI. Azure RI’s can be app...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Need improvements in AIOPs MAD functionality

Criteria · Continuously ingest live metric streams from PRTG and SolarWinds, ensuring consistent formatting and data quality validation. · Identify and alert on metric anomalies, such as real-time bandwidth spikes or drops on MITA’s devices and se...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

SSL Support for DB2 integration in Cloud Pak for AIOps

In a troubleshooting case that we have open, we have been informed that the DB2 integration for Cloud Pak for AIOps does not support SSL connection to the database. The security need for SSL should be self-evident; AIOps event data contains propri...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Suggest that Plan Level Permissions is a user selected preference in the Company Profile

Would be beneficial during deployment phase to have this disabled as the permissions is yet to be determined and multiple plans are created. Establishing the same view across plans and over time is diffult to manage. When handover is completed, cu...
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 4

Ability to disable fields

Description Introduce a capability that allows administrators to disable custom fields without deleting them. A disabled field would be fully inactive across the platform, preserving historical data while preventing future use through the UI, view...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration