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Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL Refer to Case TS019326267
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

More granular authorisation to execute impact policies via the REST API

As of Impact 7.1 Fix Pack 23, Impact policies can be triggered using the REST API. This is great and we have some use case where our Netcool users could benefit from this feature. Unfortunately, a user must have the impactAdminUser role to access ...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add Aruba Access Point Metadata upon Device Discover

Upon discovering Aruba Controller devices in NMS via the Wifi plugin, Aruba Access Point (AP) devices are also added to the cluster. However, some useful metadata is missing which does get included from other manufacturer APs. This is affecting th...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Dynamically identify root volumes

Dynamically identify root volumes in order for us to exclude root volumes from policies This will allow us to filter out root volumes from some volume scaling actions. We want to be able to use the filter option in the group creation wizard to sco...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Including Services Without Direct Costs IN cost sharing ruleS

Hi, Currently, it’s not possible to use cost statements for services that don’t have direct costs in the cost sharing feature. We have several services—such as those composed of Frontend, Backend, API Management, and SQL Database—that don’t genera...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Under review

Provide Users a "click to translate"

We are a global company and users in various countries may elect to type into their work items or OKRs using their native language. It would be great if TargetProcess could provide a convenient button next to each field "Click to translate". This ...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Allow for the customization for additional months of data refetch

Credits are often issued for charges further back than the current or previous month. Allow for the customization to refetch data back multiple months by default, preventing a manual refetch process
8 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Under review

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.
8 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Under review

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review