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Support for Cognos password 25+ characters allowing special characters

GIS is requiring the Cognos application us service ID passwords with min 25+ characters supporting special characters. IBM support has stated that "Passwords in Cognos Configuration do not have a password policy associated with them in Cognos (the...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support for DASH/ WebSphere password 25+ characters allowing special characters

GIS is requiring the DASH/WebSphere application us service ID passwords with min 25+ characters supporting special characters. IBM support has stated that "There is no restriction on special characters for users except for the primary admin user (...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

LDAP redundancy

Customer is wondering on a setup with multiple LDAP servers, could we have a redundancy scheme whereas if an LDAP server fails, another on the list would take over.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Scorecard can have historical data option

My customer is looking for scorecard data for more than 30 days. As of now in scorecard there is only two option either we can choose look back period of last 10 days or 30 days.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Regarding the Rightsizing Score table on the Scorecard

In the current Cloudability Scorecard, accounts that are not connected are still shown with a rightsizing score of 100. Since connected accounts with no recommended actions are also displayed as 100, this makes it difficult to clearly distinguish ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Remote monitoring of MSSQL

It would be useful to have the ability to remotely monitoring SQL only.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

Update the OOB Planning Board to help compare assigned effort against capacity instead of velocity

Team PI planning board in TargetProcess compares assigned effort with Velocity, which is not helping users in planning (see attached screenshot) Ideally, it should compare the assigned effort against capacity. Issues: Velocity is editable field an...
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).

It should be easy to identify if a Solution is made by IBM or by some other entity (e.g. partners).
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 1 Planned for future release

FX Rate Automation

Integrate FX Rate Automation into Multi Currency - giving Administrators the opportunity to utilize an automated end of month or average rate to convert into their preferred currency.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration