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Job statistics page missing from DWC post 10.2.6 upgrade

We have large user community with Read only access to the scheduler. The jobs statistic page is one of the frequently used feature that has been removed with 10.2.6 upgrade. we would like to have that page to be added back into the Workload Design...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

SDK custom service tags

Hey. There's an ticket about this ideia: TS020581290 We want to separate the tags for the SDK custom service instead of bringing all together, cause a mess when creating dashboards and events.
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add additional timeline 60 days, 90 days to Rightsizing recommendations

Users would like to have a better understanding of their workload utilisation (containers in particular) before being able to make a decision to rightsizing. Additional timeline options such as 60days & 90days would be helpful for them to make...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 4 Future consideration

Alert Viewer Contextual Menu: Condition Builder Support for Alert Group Membership / Insights Array

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (v4.13.1), the Alert Viewer's custom menu items (right-click actions) cannot be dynamically restricted based on whether an alert belongs to a group (i.e., identifying a child alarm versus a standalone alarm). ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Increase accuracy of probable root cause determination

The probable root cause algorithm is currently using rule based scoring algorithm. Unfortunately the ranking often doesn't point to the actual root cause. One of the reasonsis the influence of the first occuring alert. Even the capability of ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add official Instana PowerVC sensor support for IBM PowerVC 2.2.x and 2.3.x.

The Instana PowerVC sensor currently officially supports only PowerVC 2.1.x. Newer PowerVC versions, including 2.2.x and 2.3.x, have already been released and are used in customer environments. We would like Instana to officially support these ver...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Variance Analysis Grouping Adjustment

On the Variance Breakdown chart under Variance Analysis, the Group By drop down should be able to pull from the lowest level of the hierarchy. Currently, the Account Code and Account Name pull the Account Category. The Cost Center Code and Cost Ce...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Future consideration

Improve Power_Advisory_Workflow to tell users / stop when WatsonX is not available or set up.

At this time the Power_Advisory_Workflow requires WatsonX in order to be able to function. This is not stated in the documentation for setting up Power Workflows, nor does the workflow itself check for WatsonX. Instead, it will successfully run, p...
8 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Not under consideration

Scope Cost Sharing by Payer

Cost Sharing currently distributes shared costs across all/selected Business Mappings, regardless of which payer account incurred the cost. In multi‑payer, multi‑cloud environments, this leads to incorrect allocations. Add the ability to scope Cos...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1

Enable Pre-Provisioning of Cost Object Permissions Before First Apptio SSO Login

Currently, when onboarding new users to Apptio IT Planning, the access provisioning process is delayed due to dependency on the first successful SSO login through the Apptio Front Door. Existing Process: User is added in the Nokia Identity Managem...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration