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List Of Component IDs

As part of ‘Report Search’ Apptio can gather component IDs without looking at the URLs. I ask if this can be done at a project/group/report levels, to gather all IDs and export to Excel.  I was recently in a situation where I had to gather th...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Hide and Rename - Keep Only option

Sometimes a table is based on a source that may at a later date add additional columns through configuration changes etc.  This may impact a dependent table, especially one that uses a pivot or unpivot.  A handy solution similar to the H...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Driver sensitivity analysis without having to re-upload to a ‘what-if’ branch

Customer's current workflow is to run a Budget/Forecast (as of a point in time) is to export the latest month’s transformed & consolidated rule/drivers set and upload that as a direct input into their Budget/Forecast models in the project (vs ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Copy connectors from one agent to Another OR Import & Export option

Admin should have the capability to copy a connector from one agent to another in on-prem implementation OR Ability to import and export connectors from one agent to another
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

IWS MDM software has had issues with STIG applied Linux servers. I requested it 2 years ago WAO-I-365.

Will allow us to run IWS software on STIG applied Linux and Windows servers required by Federal guidance. Reply | Jan 13, 2023 Why has this not been resolved? We are a public sector federal customer and STIG is required on our servers.It's hanging...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need Not Synchronizing / Suspect state metrics in MS SQL events.

Hi Team, We need metrics for MSSQL Database went Not Synchronizing / Suspect state in Instana events.
6 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

To be able to monitor Nginx for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
6 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Future consideration

Show Context Menu when right click in time chart

Thanks for providing the great feature "Download a time chart as a CSV file"! https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=saas-build-265#download-a-time-chart-as-a-csv-file I used this feature, and it's a very nice feature, but...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Match AWS Lambda invocation timestamps in Instanta Infrastructure dashboard to timestamp reported in Lambda instrumented traces or Cloudwatch.

For AWS Lambda there is a delay of >= 10 minutes for metrics like Lambda Invocation. This is because CloudWatch makes data available with some delay. However, this is causing confusion with customers as the Lambda invocation times reported in t...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

kubectl instana plugin should support license verify feature

Same as docker "instana license verify", kubectl instana plugin should allow to verify the license during the installation and later. One of the customers (Freedom mobile) asked about that feature
12 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration