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Align Cross‑Charge deduction to the Resource’s default Project (Labor tab) instead of the activity Project

In Apptio Planning, when a cross‑charge is generated from the Labor Activity tab, the resulting charge and chargeback lines on the Summary tab both correctly reflect the Project selected on the Labor Activity entry. However, this creates a project...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Graphical drilldown on maps

The request is to have a graphical drill-down capability on maps/locations (avoiding the manual creation of several locations and device group association) where users can graphically zoom in and out e.g. from geo level -> to country -> to c...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Need an Oracle connector as an alternative to DB2 conector for reporting and visualisations with third party tools

Currently CP4AIOps only have a Out Of the Box connector/integration with DB2 and Cognos is used for dahsboarding and reporting. The customer has been looking to connect the Oracle databse for reporting to build custom dashboards. Customer is curre...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Provide the ability for sheduled reports to send the results as a CSV file.

Currently, reports scheduled from Data Insight are sent as PDF attachments via email. However, I would like these attachments to be in CSV format instead. This change would make it easier to import the report data into Excel. This functionality is...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

add support to run DA agents using Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows

At the moment it's possible to specify AD account, by specifying -uname and -domain parameters during twsinst execution. We would like to request the ability to use Group Managed Service Account as well - twsinst would need to allow us to not prov...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana Distribution of OpenTelemetry (IDOT) Support for SQL Server and IIS Receivers

Customers adopting the Instana Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector (IDOT) are encountering gaps in receiver coverage, specifically the absence of support for SQL Server (sqlserverreceiver) and IIS (iisreceiver) receivers that are available in ...
4 months ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry 1

Support service based planning (quantity * rate)

Most customer already are planning services either from external providers or even internally. A functionality similar to what is provided in Labor and Labor Activitity tab would be needed: Similar to Labor Tab: Allow user to enter a unit rate a...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

S3 bucket is encrypted with CMK for AWS CUR in Cloudability

We are currently evaluating access to our AWS Cloud-Financial billing bucket for third-party vendors. Cloudability require access to this bucket. Our current understanding is that Cloudability do not natively support Customer Managed Key (CMK) enc...

Rightsizing Recommendations for Block Storage

Help customers identify unused block storage and reduce overprovisined volumes
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing Recommendations for CloudWatch

Help customers optimize CloudWatch by providing actionable recommendations
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration