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New ITNM Collector to collect topology from Huawei NCE R21 (EMS)

Customer is planning to deploy ITNM v4.2.0.21 to pull the topology from below Network Management System (NMS). This topology data will then be collected by IBM AIOps observer. Vendor: Huawei Name: NCE R21 Technology: DWDM Protocol: REST API New co...
2 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Create Jira ticket from Commitment Recommendations

Please allow from Commitment Recommendations to create jira tickets to be assigned to product teams for evaluation.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Four decimal places

My budget owners needs to have a field type of "Money" to be with four decimal places. Currently two is fine for US Dollar but with our global market we need to go to the 4th.
9 days ago in Targetprocess / Budgeting 0 Submitted

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
11 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Mask Sensitive Data in URL - Tracking Data

We have a customer(Global Payments) use case scenario where our Instana shows the customer credit card information in the endpoint url, the customer is asking to hide/mask as its sensitive information.
13 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Submitted

Consistent sizing: Allow consistent number of vCPUs instead of consistent CPU capacity in MHz

Customers are not using MHz or GHz when they are dealing with CPU capacity of VMs but vCPUs. Thus, for a user consistent resizing shall - at least as an option - result in the same number of vCPUs. For a user it’s really hard to understand if the ...

Alerting on 95% Percentile

Add ability to alert when the X percentile is crosses Y percent. For example, when the 95% percentile crosses 70% over X time.
2 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Improvement "Related" functionality in TMB Studio

It will be very handful to add into functionality "Related" tables that are using current table as a source table. The same for Lineage, now it`s not showing any relation between these tables.
3 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted