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Enable CoPilot cost ingestion in Cloudability

Direct Integration: Cloudability should natively integrate with CoPilot to allow users get CoPilot cost data into cloudability and build reports and dashboards. Eliminate Workarounds: Current method relies on using Focus to bring data in, which is...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Needs more information

extend Netcool OMNIbus message_bus jms transport layer to parse jms header meta data

actually the Netcool Message_Bus probe jms transport layer only parses the jms message payload data, but not the jms message header data. The jms header data contains important information like message-id, timestamps, object-uri, etc. which is imp...
about 2 years ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Device Groups and Object Groups, currently set to a static amount of 50 per page. It would be nice to change that to 1000 like you can on the Device Manager page.

We have thousands of devices and millions of objects, and we need to be able to scroll down quickly through the list instead of waiting and waiting for each page to load.
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

In the Cluster Master, on the Peers tab, it would be nice to be able to save the column configuration you choose.

I have to move the columns around to see the object volume next to the peer names. I'll make device move changes and have to refresh to see the new amounts, but the columns always jump back to the way they were initially. It would be nice to save ...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Functionality already exists

Alert notifications or subscriptions via Slack / Teams, etc.

Companies are getting away from email and moving to messaging platforms like Slack and Teams. Customers want to subscribe alerts to specific Slack channels vs. getting an email.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Future consideration

Add support for recent versions of CA Spectrum (22.x) for the Netcool nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba probe

We (DOD / Defense Information Systems Agency) need to forward alerts from Spectrum CA to Netcool. The Spectrum version we are running is 22.2.8.0.13. Documentation for the Spectrum probe only indicates that it is supported through version 10.0.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Determining Planned vs Adhoc Job Execution

It would be helpful if there was an environment variable that indicated if the executed job was an instance added to the plan during MAKEPLAN or was adhoc submitted.
3 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Needs more information

Enable anomaly detection to distinguish expected cloud spend changes from genuine anomalies through configurable detection controls and awareness of billing lifecycle events such as prepaid credit exhaustion.

Customers need greater control and context-awareness within anomaly detection to reduce false-positive alerts and improve trust in anomaly insights.A specific customer use case involves a GitHub Copilot subscription where prepaid AI credits are co...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Show snoozed recommendations comments in API call

When doing an API call for snoozed recommendations a great feature would be to also receive the comments left on the resource as well as the user who left those comments. This can be used as control as well as general understanding of reasons to s...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration